# Order 4 - Forest fire fighting, timber tract, forestry, logging and sawmill work — Federal Hazardous Occupations Orders for Minors (29 CFR Part 570)

For Order 4 - Forest fire fighting, timber tract, forestry, logging and sawmill work, jurisdiction is Federal; rule is Prohibited under 18 - declared particularly hazardous for minors between 16 and 18 years of age; cfr section is 570.54; regulatory text is All occupations in forest fire fighting and forest fire prevention, in timber tracts, in forestry services, logging, and the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill are particularly hazardous for the employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age, except the following when not prohibited by any other section of this subpart:, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-09-15.

- **occupation order:** Order 4 - Forest fire fighting, timber tract, forestry, logging and sawmill work _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **jurisdiction:** Federal _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **rule:** Prohibited under 18 - declared particularly hazardous for minors between 16 and 18 years of age _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **cfr section:** 570.54 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **regulatory text:** All occupations in forest fire fighting and forest fire prevention, in timber tracts, in forestry services, logging, and the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill are particularly hazardous for the employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age, except the following when not prohibited by any other section of this subpart: _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> § 570.54 Forest fire fighting and forest fire prevention occupations, timber tract occupations, forestry service occupations, logging occupations, and occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill (Order 4). (a) Finding and declarations of fact. All occupations in forest fire fighting and forest fire prevention, in timber tracts, in forestry services, logging, and the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill are particularly hazardous for the employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age, except the following when not prohibited by any other section of this subpart: (1) Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops. (2) Work in the construction, operation, repair, or maintenance of living and administrative quarters, including logging camps and fire fighting base camps. (3) Work in the repair or maintenance of roads, railroads or flumes and work in construction and maintenance of telephone lines, but only if the minors are not engaged in the operation of power-driven machinery, the handling or use of explosives, the felling or bucking of timber, the collecting or transporting of logs, or work on trestles. (4) The following tasks in forest fire prevention provided none of these tasks may be performed in conjunction with or in support of efforts to extinguish a forest fire: the clearing of fire trails or roads; the construction, maintenance, and patrolling of fire lines; the piling and burning of slash; the maintaining of fire fighting equipment; and acting as a fire lookout or fire patrolman. (5) Work related to forest marketing and forest economics when performed away from the forest. (6) Work in the feeding or care of animals. (7) Peeling of fence posts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, or similar products, when not done in conjunction with and at the same time and place as other logging occupations declared hazardous by this section. (8) The following additional exceptions apply to the operation of a permanent sawmill or the operation of any lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill, but not to a portable sawmill. In addition, the following exceptions do not apply to work which entails entering the sawmill building, except for those minors whose employment meets the requirements of the limited exemptions discussed in §§ 570.34(m) and 570.54(c) :

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-570.54

Last verified: 2026-09-15. Review by: 2027-08-28.
Part of [Federal Hazardous Occupations Orders for Minors (29 CFR Part 570)](https://referencesource.org/federal-child-labor-hazardous-occupations/).