---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 570.53"
title: "29"
number: "570.53"
heading: "Coal-mine occupations (Order 3)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/570.53"
---

# §570.53. Coal-mine occupations (Order 3).

- (a) **Finding and declaration of fact.** All occupations in or about any coal mine, except the occupation of slate or other refuse picking at a picking table or picking chute in a tipple or breaker and occupations requiring the performance of duties solely in offices or in repair or maintenance shops located in the surface part of any coal-mining plant, are particularly hazardous for the employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age.
- (b) **Definitions.** For the purpose of this section:
  - (1) The term coal shall mean any rank of coal including lignite, bituminous, and the anthracite coals.
  - (2) The term all occupations in or about any coal mine shall mean all types of work performed in any underground working, open-pit, or surface part of any coal-mining plant, that contribute to the extraction, grading, cleaning, or other handling of coal.

## Notes

### Amendments

[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, and amended at 28 FR 3449, Apr. 9, 1963. Redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971]

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 203(l), 212, 213(c).

### Source

Source: 16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, and further redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971.

### Amendments

[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, and amended at 28 FR 3449, Apr. 9, 1963. Redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971]