Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS › Chapter 25 - CHILD LABOR › Subchapter 4 - HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS › Section 12-25-56 - Occupations in logging and in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill

Current through June,
				2024
(a) As used in this
				section:
"All occupations in logging" means all work performed in
				  connection with the felling of timber; the bucking or converting of timber into
				  logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood,
				  cordwood, fence posts, or similar products; the collecting, skidding, yarding,
				  loading, transporting, and unloading of such products in connection with
				  logging; the constructing, repairing, and maintaining of roads, railroads,
				  flumes, or camps used in connection with logging; the moving, installing,
				  rigging, and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging; and other
				  work performed in connection with logging. The term shall not apply to work
				  performed in timber culture, timber-stand improvement, or in emergency
				  fire-fighting.
"All occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill,
				  shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill" means all work performed in or about any
				  such mill in connection with storing of logs and bolts; converting logs or
				  bolts into sawn lumber, laths, shingles, or cooperage stock; storing, drying,
				  and shipping lumber, laths, shingles, cooperage stock, or other products of
				  such mills; and other work performed in connection with the operations of any
				  sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill. The term shall not
				  include work performed in the planing mill department or other remanufacturing
				  department of any sawmill, or in any planing mill or remanufacturing plant not
				  a part of a sawmill.
(b)
				All occupations in logging and all occupations in the operation of any sawmill,
				lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill are declared hazardous for
				minors under eighteen years of age.
(c) This section shall not apply to the
				employment in the following occupations of minors who have attained the age of
				sixteen:
(1) Exceptions applying to logging:
(A) Work in offices or in the repair or
				maintenance shops;
(B) Work in the
				construction, operation, repair, or maintenance of living and administrative
				quartets of logging camps;
(C) Work
				in timber cruising, surveying, or logging-engineering parties; work in the
				repair or maintenance of roads, railroads, or flumes; work in forest
				protection, such as clearing fire trails or roads, piling and burning slash,
				maintaining fire-fighting equipment, constructing and maintaining telephone
				lines, or acting as fire lookout or fire patroller away from the actual logging
				operations; provided that the provisions of this subparagraph shall not apply
				to the felling or bucking of timber, the collecting or transporting of logs,
				the operation of power-driven machinery, the handling or use of explosives, and
				work on trestles;
(D) Peeling of
				fence posts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, or similar
				products, when not done in conjunction with and at the same time and place as
				other logging occupations declared hazardous by this section; and
(E) Work in the feeding or care of animals;
				and