A Kentucky distribution center has been slapped with a $30,000 fine after the U.S. Labor Department found it illegally 

employed two children, one of whom operated a forklift.

Win.It America Inc.’s warehouse in Hebron, about 20 miles west of Cincinnati, was found to have employed an 11-year-old 

and a 13-year-old at its distribution center “for months,” the Labor Department said Friday in a news release.

The Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division discovered the children in August.

One employed child operated a forklift, which is considered hazardous for workers under 18, and another child picked up 

orders in the warehouse, which is prohibited for workers under 16, the department said.

The children were also working "more hours than legally allowed and violated federal regulations that forbid employing 

workers under 14 years of age in non-agricultural occupations," the release said.

The Labor Department obtained a federal consent judgment on Sept. 8 that requires the operator of the Hebron warehouse

to stop employing children and warns it against violating federal child labor laws in the future.