Code 7538 is not available for division of payroll with Code 7539 “Electric Light or Power Co. – All Employees & Drivers.”

Code 7538 applies to employers engaged in electric light or power line construction.  This classification contemplates all work normal and incidental to the construction of electric light or power lines when undertaken by a contractor at a particular job or location.  This classification includes the setting of poles or towers including the excavation and concrete work incidental to such tower work, the overhead stringing of high-tension wires or cables and the installation of circuit breakers and transformers on poles or towers.  This classification is applicable to these operations whether the operations are performed by separate crews at separate time intervals or by single crews that engage in all aspects of electric light or power line construction operations.

In the event an employer contracts to erect electric light or power lines at a job or location and sublets a portion of the work, the employer is considered to be in the electric light or power line construction business.  This classification is applicable to any work performed in connection with electric light or power line construction operations performed by the contractor at the job or location.

In the event that a contractor engages in overhead and below ground cable or line installation, and the underground cable is laid manually, this classification is applicable to both operations.  The clearing of rights-of-way by contractors who also engage in electric light or power line construction is inclusive under this classification.