Iowa Code
Chapter 92 - CHILD LABOR
Section 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.
j. Laundering, except for the use of a washing machine which has a capacity of less than ten cubic feet and which is designed to reach an internal temperature which does not exceed 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting office, errand, or packaging work when done away from moving machinery.
[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]
86 Acts, ch 1245, §923; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §201; 2017 Acts, ch 66, §1