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Class Code Information

Phraseology

Fruit Packing

Description

Code 2105 applies to employers engaged in fresh fruit packing.  The operations involve buying or collecting fruit in bulk from growers, sorting, washing, grading, and packing.

Assignment by Analogy

Tomatoes

Operations to be Separately Rated

  1. Farmers engaged in washing, grading, waxing, and packing of their own fruits or vegetables that they themselves have grown.  Assign the appropriate farm classification. 

  2. Freezing and storing:
    1. Fruits or vegetables as a service for private individuals.  Prior to storage in lockers, food may be prepared by cutting, slicing, grinding, or chopping according to customers’ specifications.  Refer to Code 8031 “Fish, Poultry or Meat Store – Retail.”  
    2. Fruit or vegetables other than for private individuals.  Includes incidental repackaging but does not include sorting, grading, or delivery of fruit.  Refer to Code 8291 “Storage Warehouse – Cold.”  
  3. Fruit:
    1. Canning.  Refer to Code 2111 “Cannery – NOC.”
    2. Evaporating or preserving.  Refer to Code 2112 “Fruit Evaporating or Preserving.”
  4. Inspecting fruit and vegetables that are purchased by others.  Refer to Code 8709F “Stevedoring – Talliers and Checking Clerks Engaged in Connection with Stevedore Work – Coverage Under U.S. Act” or Code 8719 “Stevedoring – Talliers and Checking Clerks Engaged in Connection with Stevedore Work – Coverage Under State Act Only.”

  5. Vegetable packing - buying or collecting from growers, sorting, grading, packing, or otherwise preparing vegetables for transportation to the market and buyers.  Refer to Code 8209 "Vegetable Packing & Drivers."

Industry Group

Food and Beverage Manufacturing