McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania broke child labor laws, with kids under 16 operating deep fryers, Labor Department says

• McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania employed more than 150 teenagers at hours prohibited by federal law.
• Children under the age of 16 were operating deep fryers, according to the US Department of Labor.
• The owner of the locations paid more than $92,000 in fines.

Children under the age of 16 were operating deep fryers and working hours prohibited by federal law at more than a half-dozen McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania, the US Department of Labor said Wednesday.

At seven restaurants across the state, 154 minors were employed at times they should have been at home focusing on their schoolwork, investigators said. At five of the locations, more than 23 minors, some as young as 14, were found to be working illegally.