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Exemptions to Youth Under 16 Certification Programs for Exemptions through Cooperative Extension |
Tractor and machinery certification programs provide the training to allow
exemption to youth under age 16 who successfully complete the program to
engage in agricultural work activities listed below. Youth who do not successfully
complete or participate in the training program cannot be employed to do
any of the following activities in addition to those listed as hazardous
for all youth.
Operating a tractor over 20 PTO horsepower. This includes connecting or disconnecting equipment or any equipment parts to or from a tractor.
Operating or assisting to operated equipment listed below. This includes starting, stopping, adjusting, feeding, or any activity involving physical contact associated with the operation of the equipment listed. This equipment includes: hay mower, hay baler, forage harvester, forage blower, unloading mechanism of a nongravity-type self unloading wagon or trailer, grain combine, corn picker, auger conveyor, feed grinder, crop dryer, cotton picker, post-hole digger, post driver, a nonwalking type rotary tiller, or mobile pea viner. |