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Photocopying services exclusively. Refer to Code 8016 “Photocopy Shops – All Employees & Clerical, Outside Salespersons, Drivers.”
Printing - Pre-press activities which include, but are not limited to, editing, designing, proofreading and photographic composition, including negative stripping and plate making. Refer to Code 8813 “Printing – Editing, Designing, Proofreading or Photographic Composing & Clerical.”
Silk screen printing by hand. Refer to Code 2553 “Furnishing Goods Mfg. – NOC – From Textile Fabrics.”
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Printing - All Other EmployeesNotes:Includes incidental assembling, stapling or binding of circulars, pamphlets or catalogues.
Description:Code 4299 applies to employers engaged in commercial printing for others. Printing operations may include hand typesetting, linotyping, transferring of photocopy to metal plates, press operations, perforating, folding, incidental cutting, collating etc. An employer will receive artwork from their customer and make a negative which is then washed and stripped and made into pre-sensitized aluminum plate which is exposed to light with the image being burned onto the plate. Some employers may contract out the platemaking and only perform the printing. Platemaking is an inclusive part of this operation.
This classification also applies to manufacturing rubber stamp, silk screen printing by machine and the manufacturing of playing cards. The printing of the playing cards is also inclusive under this classification. Lithographing sheet metal is also inclusive under this classification.
Assignment by Analogies:Quick printing services
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Printing – Editing, Designing, Proofreading or Photographic Composing & ClericalNotes:
Description:Code 8813 applies to pre-press activities of employers engaged in printing for others. Pre-press activities include, but are not limited to, editing, designing, proofreading and photographic composition, including negative stripping and plate making.
Assignment by Analogies:
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Engineers employed by manufacturing companies. Assign the appropriate manufacturing classification.
Geophysical exploration – seismic. Refer to Code 5508 “Excavation – Rock – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”
Employers that perform actual construction, erection or installation operations. Assign the appropriate construction, erection or installation classification.
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Engineer or Architect Consulting & ClericalNotes:This classification is not applicable when engaged in actual construction. Shall not be assigned to an employer engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to Code 8601 are conducted as a separate and distinct business.
Includes lease buyers who, as any part of their duty, perform work like that undertaken by oil or gas geologists or scouts.
Description:Code 8601 applies to employers engaged in the architectural or engineering profession as a separate and distinct business. Operations conducted by these firms usually include consultations with clients, research on behalf of clients, site inspections, and the compilation of information to enable these firms to make recommendations to their clients. These recommendations may be in the form of written or electronic media and include plans, maps, charts, and specifications. This classification includes, but is not limited to, the following type of engineering firms: mechanical, civil, electrical, chemical, mining, metallurgical, marine, and industrial.
Assignment by Analogies:• Archaeologists
Operations To Be Separately Rated:
• Architectural consultants include visit to job sites
• Instrument logging, mapping or survey work – land – wells
• Surveyor
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- Manufacturing:
- Foam – plastic, Styrofoam, urethane. Refer to Code 4459 “Plastics Mfg. – Sheets, Rods, or Tubes.”
- Gasket – metal – other than plumbing type. Refer to Code 3129 “Buckle or Button Mfg. – Metal.”
- Rubber boots or shoes. Refer to Code 2660 “Boot or Shoe Mfg. – NOC.”
- Rubber coated fabrics. Refer to Code 4493 “Fabric Coating or Impregnating – NOC.”
- Rubber garments and raincoats. Refer to Code 2501 “Clothing Mfg.”
- Rubber stamps – including date or receipt type. Refer to Code 4299 “Printing - All Other Employees.”
- Rubber tires. Refer to Code 4420 “Rubber Tire Mfg.”
Rubber products that are manufactured from liquid rubber by dipping process. Refer to Code 4452 “Plastics Mfg. – Fabricated Products – NOC.”
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Rubber Goods Mfg. – NOCNotes:
Description:Code 4410 is applicable to employers engaged in manufacturing synthetic or natural rubber goods by hand or machine process. Fabrication may include washing, cracking, mixing and rolling of crude rubber. Vulcanization may occur for the curing of some rubber goods.
This classification applies to manufacturing rubber goods such as but not limited to balls for sports, diving suits, bands, belts for machinery, rafts, floor tile, carpet pads or mats, hoses, combs, gloves and boots or grips or sleeves for mop or broom handles.
Urethane or Styrofoam that is cut or slit into other goods such as packaging products is also assigned to this classification. However, the fabrication of foam into block or slab form with no further processing is separately rated to Code 4452 “Plastics Mfg. – Fabricated Products – NOC.”
This classification also applies to rubber reclaiming when the process involves grinding and pulverizing rubber scrap, compounding with other rubber materials such as crude rubber, and sacking, and shipping to other manufacturers. Rubber dealers that shred or cut used rubber for sale and do not compound with other rubber materials are separately rated to Code 8264 “Bottle, Rubber, Paper Stock or Rag Dealer – Second-Hand & Drivers.”
Assignment by Analogies:
Operations To Be Separately Rated: - Manufacturing:
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Printing of material for others that does not require any mailing or addressing, or the addressing or mailing is the minor operation. Refer to Code 4299 “Printing - All Other Employees.”
- Messenger Service Companies:
- Delivering mail, parcels or packages by vehicle (parcels or packages must be less than100 lbs.). Refer to Code 7231 “Messenger Service Companies – Delivering Mail, Parcels or Packages – All Employees & Drivers.”
- Delivering envelopes, parcels, or packages by foot or bicycle. Refer to Code 8742 “Salespersons, Collectors or Messengers – Outside.”
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Mailing or Addressing Co.Notes:Shall not be assigned to an employer in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to Code 8800 are conducted as a separate and distinct business.
Description:Code 8800 applies to employers that prepare mailing lists and arrange in addressing and mailing material with respect to such lists. Such businesses have employees who accumulate names and assign them to specific mailing lists in addition to addressing and mailing material such as but not limited to, newspapers, magazines, letters and circulars. The incidental printing of the material to be mailed is included.
This classification includes letter service shops and employers that receive outgoing mail from their customers and sort it by zip code. Once sorted, the mail is delivered by the employer to the post office. These operations may have large computer data centers where the mailing list is manipulated to eliminate duplicate records, append change of address information, standardize the address to meet postal requirements, add information to aid in delivery (bar code or zip + 4), and finally sort the records in postal sequence. Once manipulated, the mailing list may also be used to print personalized letters and envelopes on high-speed laser printers.
Assignment by Analogies:
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