Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS › Chapter 25 - CHILD LABOR › Subchapter 4 - HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS › Section 12-25-47 - Occupations in or about slaughtering and meat packing establishments and rendering plants

Current through June,
				2024
(a) As used in this
				section:
"Boning occupations" means the removal of bones from meat
				  cuts. It does not include work that involves cutting, scraping, or trimming
				  meat from cuts containing bones.
"Curing cellar" includes the workroom or workplace which is
				  primarily devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing
				  materials. It does not include the workroom or workplace where meats are
				  smoked.
"Hide cellar" includes the workroom or workplace where hides
				  are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise cured.
"Killing floor" includes the workroom or workplace where
				  cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats or horses are immobilized, shackled,
				  or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to chilling.
"Rendering plants" means establishments engaged in the
				  conversion of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and
				  bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and
				  similar products.
"Slaughtering and meat packing establishments" means places
				  in or about which cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are
				  killed, butchered, or processed. The term shall also include establishments
				  which manufacture or process meat products or sausage casings from such
				  animals.
(b) Except as
				otherwise provided in this section, the following occupations in or about
				slaughtering and meat packing establishments, rendering plants, or wholesale,
				retail, or service establishments are declared hazardous for minors under
				eighteen years of age:
(1) All occupations on
				the killing floor, in curing cellars, and in hide cellars, except the work of
				messengers, runners, handtruckers, and similar occupations which require
				entering such workrooms or workplaces infrequently and for short periods of
				time;
(2) All occupations involved
				in the recovery of lard and oils, except packaging and shipping of such
				products and the operation of lard-roll machines;
(3) All occupations involved in tankage or
				rendering of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and
				bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and
				similar products;
(4) All
				occupations involved in the operation or feeding of the following power-driven
				meat processing machines, including setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling,
				or cleaning meat patty forming machines, meat and bone cutting saws, knives
				(except bacon slicing machines), head-splitters, and guillotine cutters;
				snout-pullers and jaw-pullers; skinning machines; horizontal rotary washing
				machines; casing cleaning machines such as crushing, stripping, and finishing
				machines; grinding, mixing, chopping, and hashing machines; and presses (except
				belly-rolling machines);
(5) All
				boning occupations;
(6) All
				occupations that involve the pushing or dropping of any suspended carcass,
				half-carcass, or quarter-carcass; and
(7) All occupations involving hand-lifting or
				hand-carrying any carcass or half-carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any
				quarter-carcass of beef or horse.