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Phraseology

Stevedoring – Talliers and Checking Clerks Engaged in Connection with Stevedore Work – Coverage Under U.S. Act
Note:  

Includes mending or repacking of damaged containers.

Description

Code 8709F applies to employers engaged in inspecting, sampling and/or weighing merchandise on vessels, docks, railway stations or warehouses.  Talliers and checking clerks of steamship lines or agencies and talliers and checking clerks engaged in connection with stevedore work are also contemplated by this classification.

Once the inspectors have inspected and weighed the merchandise and all is in order it is then released to the appropriate parties.

Assignment by Analogy

• Brokers and forwarding agents – weighing merchandise on piers
• Feed or grain inspecting – at railroad terminals or ships

Operations to be Separately Rated

  1. Inspectors, samplers, or weighers of merchandise on vessels or docks or railway stations or warehouses; Steamship line or agency – port employees – talliers, checking clerks and employees engaged in mending or repacking of damaged containers; Stevedoring – Talliers and checking clerks engaged in connection with stevedore work – Coverage Under State Act only.  Refer to Code 8719 “Stevedoring – Talliers and Checking Clerks Engaged in Connection with Stevedore Work – Coverage Under State Act Only.”

  2. Freight handlers:
    1. On piers or in terminals or areas adjoining piers.  Refer to Code 7366F “Freight Handlers – On Piers or in Terminals or Areas Adjoining Piers.”
    2. Packing, handling or shipping explosives or ammunition – under contract.  Refer to Code 7367 “Freight Handlers – NOC.”

  3. Steamship line or agency – port employees – superintendents, captains, engineers, stewards, or their assistants, pay clerks.  Refer to Code 8726F “Steamship Line or Agency – Port Employees – Superintendents, Captains, Engineers, Stewards or Their Assistants, Pay Clerks.”

Industry Group

Admiralty, Fela, Federal