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Fish, Poultry or Meat Dealer – WholesaleCode 8021 and Code 2089 “Packing House – All Operations” shall not be assigned to the same risk unless the operations described by these classifications are conducted as separate and distinct businesses.
Description
Code 8021 applies to dealers principally engaged in the wholesale distribution of fresh and cured meat, fish or poultry. Some of these dealers may cut the meat, fish or poultry into steaks, chops, roasts, fillets or poultry parts for sale to hotels, restaurants, clubs, hospitals, institutions and stores.
Meat, fish or poultry dealers may also distribute a minor and incidental amount of other miscellaneous products, such as groceries, dairy products, fresh fruit and vegetables.
Assignment by Analogy
• Butcher shops
• Clams or oysters – fresh – shore or dock work – cull, sort, shuck, grade, pack
• Sausage – no butchering or handling of livestock
• Smoked fish or meat – curing fish at dock or shore
Operations to be Separately Rated
The slaughtering, processing and distribution of meat as performed by a packing house. Refer to Code 2089 “Packing House – All Operations.”