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Excavation – Rock – All Operations to Completion & Drivers
Note:
Includes incidental quarrying or stone crushing.
Description
Code 5508 applies to employers engaged in the excavation of mass rock for various construction projects such as highway construction, ditch lines, quarries, basement construction, and for commercial, industrial, residential and government projects.
Assignment by Analogy
• Blasting contractors – dynamite or high explosive blasting
• Geophysical exploration – seismic
• Oil or gas well – perforating of casing – shooting
Operations to be Separately Rated
Street construction or erection operations. Refer to Code 5507 “Street or Road Construction – Sub-Surface Work – All Operations to Completion & Drivers” and Code 5506 “Street or Road Construction – Paving or Repaving – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”
- Tunneling - Pneumatic or Not Pneumatic. Refer to Code 6251 “Tunneling – All Operations to Completion.”