Labor laws figure in fatal crash By Melanie Payne Sacramento Bee
According to the California Labor Code, minors are prohibited from working past 12:30 a.m. or for more than eight hours in a day. They also must have a school-issued work permit.
Paradise High School, where Mouser was a senior, had not issued a work permit for him. And according to the California Highway Patrol report: 'The teenage youths had worked through the night and had not slept for more than 24 hours.'
These apparent violations of child labor laws have prompted the Department of Industrial Relations to launch an inquiry into the company that hired Mouser, Sterile Environment Technologies Inc., which is based in Kissimmee, Fla.