92.6 - FOURTEEN AND FIFTEEN -- OCCUPATIONS NOT PERMITTED.

        92.6  FOURTEEN AND FIFTEEN -- OCCUPATIONS NOT
      PERMITTED.
         1.  Persons fourteen and fifteen years of age may not be employed
      in:
         a.  Any manufacturing occupation.
         b.  Any mining occupation.
         c.  Processing occupations, except in a retail, food service,
      or gasoline service establishment in those specific occupations
      expressly permitted under the provisions of section 92.5.
         d.  Occupations requiring the performance of any duties in
      workrooms or work places where goods are manufactured, mined, or
      otherwise processed, except to the extent expressly permitted in
      retail, food service, or gasoline service establishments under the
      provisions of section 92.5.
         e.  Public messenger service.
         f.  Operation or tending of hoisting apparatus or of any
      power-driven machinery, other than office machines and machines in
      retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments which are
      specified in section 92.5 as machines which such minors may operate
      in such establishments.
         g.  Occupations prohibited by rules adopted pursuant to
      chapter 17A by the labor commissioner.
         h.  Occupations in connection with the following, except
      office or sales work in connection with these occupations, not
      performed on transportation media or at the actual construction site:

         (1)  Transportation of persons or property by rail, highway, air,
      on water, pipeline, or other means.
         (2)  Warehousing and storage.
         (3)  Communications and public utilities.
         (4)  Construction, including repair.
         i.  Any of the following occupations in a retail, food
      service, or gasoline service establishment:
         (1)  Work performed in or about boiler or engine rooms.
         (2)  Work in connection with maintenance or repair of the
      establishment, machines, or equipment.
         (3)  Outside window washing that involves working from window
      sills, and all work requiring the use of ladders, scaffolds, or their
      substitutes.
         (4)  Cooking except at soda fountains, lunch counters, snack bars,
      or cafeteria serving counters, and baking.
         (5)  Occupations which involve operating, setting up, adjusting,
      cleaning, oiling, or repairing power-driven food slicers and
      grinders, food choppers and cutters, and bakery-type mixers.
         (6)  Work in freezers and meat coolers and all work in preparation
      of meats for sale, except wrapping, sealing, labeling, weighing,
      pricing, and stocking when performed in other areas.
         (7)  Loading and unloading goods to and from trucks, railroad
      cars, or conveyors.
         (8)  All occupations in warehouses except office and clerical
      work.
         2.  Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting
      office, errand, or packaging work when done away from moving
      machinery.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [SS15, § 2477-a, -b, -c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1526, 1529,
      1536, 1539; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 92.1, 92.4, 92.11, 92.14;
      C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 92.6] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 923; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, § 201