Agricultural and Hazardous Agricultural Jobs

The following article defines what an agricultural job is, and what constitutes a hazardous job.

Agricultural and Hazardous Agricultural Jobs

The application of child labor laws often depends on whether the job is agricultural or not, and if it is agricultural, whether it is hazardous or not. In order to figure out which laws apply to you, you need to know how the U.S. Department of Labor defines "agriculture" and "hazardous agricultural" job.
Agricultural Jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor defines agriculture to include:
cultivating and tilling the soildairy farmingproducing, cultivating, growing or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commoditiesraising livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals or poultry, orany practices performed by a farmer on a farm as part of farming -- for example, forestry, lumbering and preparing items for market.Hazardous Agricultural Jobs
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, several agricultural jobs are too hazardous for workers who are 15 years of age and younger. Those jobs include:
operating a tractor that has more than 20 horsepowerworking in a yard, pen or stall occupied by a bull, a stud horse maintained for breeding purposes or a sow with suckling pigsfelling timber with a diameter of more than six inchesworking from a ladder or scaffold at a height of more than 20 feet, andhandling or using blast agents.
For a complete list of hazardous agricultural occupations, refer to the Department of Labor's website at http://www.dol.gov.

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