Adds a new definition, “Logging operation,” to section 3 (29 U.S.C. 203). A “logging operation” means a mechanized operation that includes: (A) bucking or converting timber into logs, poles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar products; (B) collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting, or unloading such products in connection with those activities; (C) constructing, repairing, or maintaining roads or camps used in connection with those activities; (D) constructing, repairing, or maintaining machinery or equipment used in those activities; and (E) any other work performed in connection with those activities.

States that the definition of “logging operation” does not include the manual use of chainsaws to fell or process timber or the use of cable skidders to bring the timber to the landing.

Adds a new definition, “Mechanized operation,” to section 3 (29 U.S.C. 203). “Mechanized operation” means the felling, skidding, yarding, loading, or processing of timber by equipment other than manually operated chainsaws or cable skidders. It explicitly includes use of whole tree processors, cut-to-length processors, stroke boom delimbers, wheeled and track feller-bunchers, pull-through delimbers, wheeled and track forwarders, chippers, grinders, mechanical debarkers, wheeled and track grapple skidders, yarders, bulldozers, excavators, and log loaders.

Amends section 13(c) (29 U.S.C. 213(c)) by adding a new paragraph (8) that makes the child-labor provisions of section 12 apply to employees who are 16 or 17 years old employed in a logging operation in any occupation the Secretary of Labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 17. The paragraph provides an exception: the rules do not apply when the 16- or 17-year-old employee is employed by his parent or by a person standing in the place of his parent in a logging operation owned or operated by that parent or person.