29 CFR § 1201.5Chapter X

§ 1201.5 Exceptions.

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The term “employee” shall not include any individual while such individual is engaged in the physical operations consisting of the mining of coal, the preparation of coal, the handling (other than movement by rail with standard locomotives) of coal not beyond the mine tipple, or the loading of coal at the tipple.

eCFR data current as of: June 10, 2026

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