Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 875 - Labor Services Division › Child Labor › Chapter 32 - Child Labor › Rule 875-32.8 - Terms

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The terms used in Iowa Code section
				  92.8 are defined and applied as
				  specified in this rule.
(1)
"Work activities in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or
				storing explosives or articles containing explosive components"
means:
a. All activities in or about any plant or
				establishment (other than retail establishments or plants or establishments of
				the type described in paragraph
"b"
) manufacturing or storing
				explosives or articles containing explosive components except where the
				activities are performed in a "nonexplosive area."
b. The following activities in or about any
				plant or establishment manufacturing or storing small-arms ammunition not
				exceeding .60 caliber in size, shotgun shells, or blasting caps when
				manufactured or stored in conjunction with the manufacture of small-arms
				ammunition:
(1) All activities involved in
				the manufacturing, mixing, transporting, or handling of explosive compounds in
				the manufacture of small-arms ammunition and all other activities requiring the
				performance of any duties in the explosives area in which explosive compounds
				are manufactured or mixed.
(2) All
				activities involved in the manufacturing, transporting, or handling of primers
				and all other activities requiring the performance of any duties in the same
				building in which primers are manufactured.
(3) All activities involved in the priming of
				cartridges and all other activities requiring the performance of any duties in
				the same workroom in which rim-fire cartridges are primed.
(4) All activities involved in the plate
				loading of cartridges and in the operation of automatic loading
				machines.
(5) All activities
				involved in the loading, inspecting, packing, shipping and storage of blasting
				caps.
c. Definitions.
"Explosives"
and
"articles
				  containing explosive components"
means and includes ammunition, black
				  powder, blasting caps, fireworks, high explosives, primers, smokeless powder,
				  and all goods classified and defined as explosives by the Interstate Commerce
				  Commission in regulations for the transportation of explosives and other
				  dangerous substances by common carriers (49 CFR Parts 71-78, in effect July 1,
				  1987).
"Nonexplosive area"
means an area where none
				  of the work performed in the area involves the handling or use of explosives;
				  the area is separated from the explosives area by a distance not less than that
				  prescribed in the American Table of Distances for the protection of inhabited
				  buildings; the area is separated from the explosives area by a fence or is
				  otherwise located so that it constitutes a definite designated area; and
				  satisfactory controls have been established to prevent employees under 18 years
				  of age within the area from entering any area in or about the plant which does
				  not meet the criteria of this definition.
"Plant or establishment manufacturing or storing
				  explosives or articles containing explosive components"
means the land
				  with all the buildings and other structures thereon used in connection with the
				  manufacturing or processing or storing of explosives or articles containing
				  explosive components.
Nothing in this subrule shall be construed to prohibit light
				  assembly work that is away from machines, and nothing in this subrule shall be
				  construed to prohibit selling or assisting in the sale of consumer fireworks in
				  accordance with Iowa Code section
				  10A.519.
This subrule is intended to implement Iowa Code section
				  92.8(1).