West Virginia Code
Article 3. Safety and Welfare of Employees
§21-3-10. Food or Meals in Factories

No employee shall take or be allowed to take food into any room or apartment in any factory, mercantile establishment, mill or workshop, where white lead, arsenic, or other poisonous substances, or injurious or noxious fumes, dusts or gases under harmful conditions are present as the result of the business conducted by such factory, mercantile establishment, mill or workshop, and notice to this effect shall be posted in each room or apartment. Employees shall not remain in any such room or apartment during the time allowed for meals, and suitable provisions shall be made and maintained by the employer, when practicable, for enabling the employees to take their meals elsewhere in such establishment.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 21. Labor

Article 3. Safety and Welfare of Employees

§21-3-1. Employers to Safeguard Life, etc., of Employees; Reports and Investigations of Accidents; Orders of Commissioner

§21-3-2. Guarding Machinery and Dangerous Places; Standards for Construction of Scaffolding, Hoists and Temporary Floors; First Aid Equipment

§21-3-3. Guarding Shafts, Hatchways, Wheel Holes, Elevators and Electrical Apparatus; Requiring Correction of Unsafe Conditions

§21-3-3a. National Electrical Code Minimum Standards

§21-3-4. Removal of Safeguards

§21-3-5. Control of Machinery

§21-3-6. Stairways, Passageways and Lights; Overloading Floors or Walls; Space Between Machines

§21-3-7. Regulation of Operation of Steam Boilers

§21-3-8. Smoking Where Prohibited by Sign

§21-3-9. Fire Escapes

§21-3-10. Food or Meals in Factories

§21-3-10a. Meal Breaks

§21-3-11. Seats for Female Employees

§21-3-12. Water Closets

§21-3-13. Washing Facilities and Dressing Rooms

§21-3-14. Power of Commissioner as to Witnesses; Prosecution of Offenses; Penalties; Jurisdiction; Exemption of Coal Mining Operations; Recovery of Civil Penalties

§21-3-15. Records and Reports of Commissioner, Inspectors and Chief Clerk

§21-3-16. Inclosure of Streetcar Platforms

§21-3-17. Employers Not to Require Payment of Fees for Medical Examination as Condition of Employment; Enforcement

§21-3-18. Hazardous Chemical Substances; Notice to Employees; Reports to Commissioner; Penalties

§21-3-19. Discrimination for Use of Tobacco Products Prohibited

§21-3-20. Use of Video and Other Electronic Surveillance Devices by Employers Prohibited

§21-3-21. Special Revenue Fund for the Division of Labor; Authorized Deposits; Disbursements; Purpose

§21-3-22. Osha Construction Safety Program