Child labor prohibitions

Currently the Fair Labor Standards Act identifies 17 hazardous occupations that are partially or totally prohibited for teenagers. The list is below. But note that exceptions apply in some of these, and explanations are too long to include here. So be sure to identify and pay attention to the details where any of these apply to you.

- Manufacturing or storing explosives
- Driving a motor vehicle
- Logging and sawmilling
- Power-driven woodworking
- Exposure to radioactive substances and ionizing
- Power-driven hoisting apparatus
- Power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines
- Mining, other than coal
- Power-driven meat-processing machines, including at restaurants
- Power-driven bakery machines
- Power-driven paper-products machines
- Manufacturing of brick, tile and related products
- Power-driven circular saws, band saws and guillotine shears
- Wrecking, demolition, and ship-breaking operations
- Roofing operations
- Trenching and excavation operations