WC & EL / PART TWO / CLASSIFICATION CODE INTERPRETATIONS

Includes incidental foundry operations.

Code 3146 applies to employers engaged in manufacturing various hardware items such as door knobs, handbag frames, cabinet handles, hinges and pulls and other similar hardware items that are made from metal bars, rods or castings received from others.  The items may be machined and/or stamped and assembled by hand to produce a finished product.  Part of the production process includes plating, polishing and buffing to various degrees of sheen.  Antiquing is considered a plating finish.   

Some of the machinery used are power presses, drill presses, double action draw presses, turret lathes, dies sanders, surface grinders, rivet machines, manual screw machines, power shears, laser welders, cut off saws, table saws, electroplaters and crucibles.

1. Blast furnace operations involving smelting, sintering or refining metals other than lead or iron.  Refer to Code 1438 “Smelting, Sintering or Refining – NOC – Metals – Not Iron or Lead & Drivers.” 

2. Expansion bolts or shields manufacturing.  Refer to Code 3145 “Automatic Screw Machine Products Mfg.”  

3. Rolling mill:
   1. Brass, copper or other soft metals.  Refer to Code 3027 “Rolling Mill – NOC & Drivers.”
   2. Iron or steel – cold rolling, drawing or doubling process.  No Steelmaking.  Refer to Code 3018 “Iron or Steel Mfg. – Rolling Mill & Drivers.” 

Code 7998 applies to employers engaged in retail sales of merchandise such as nails, screws, bolts, nuts, washers, gaskets, brackets, locks, hinges, electrical outlet boxes, switches, plates, fuses, plugs, sockets, hand or machine tools, portable electrical tools, plumbing fittings and garden tools and equipment including lawn mowers and snow plows.

In addition, hardware stores may also sell a variety of “non-hardware” items which include paint, wallpaper and allied supplies, small electrical appliances, kitchenware, china and glassware, sporting goods and automobile accessories or parts.  They may also rent floor scraping or polishing machines, rug or upholstery cleaning machines and similar equipment.  This classification also includes the sale of parts and supplies for radio and television equipment and locksmiths.

1. Stores principally engaged in the retail selling of:
   1. Paint, wallpaper and allied supplies, household electrical appliances, radios and television sets, kitchenware, china and glassware, or sporting goods.  Refer to Code 8017 “Retail Store – NOC – No Service of Food.”
   2. Automobile accessories or parts.  Refer to Code 8046 “Automobile Accessories Store – NOC – Retail & Drivers.”

2. Repair or installation of household electrical appliances, radios and television sets by separate employees, at or away from the store.  Refer to Code 9519 “Household Appliances – Electrical – Installation, Service or Repair & Drivers.”

3. A store which has separate employees engaged in sharpening or repairing ice skates, lawn mowers or cutlery.  Refer to Code 3632 “Machine Shop – NOC.”

4. Internet and mail order sales of hardware to individuals.  Refer to Code 7999 “Hardware Store – Wholesale.”

Code 7999 applies to employers engaged in the wholesale selling of merchandise such as nails, screws, bolts, washers, gaskets, brackets, locks, hinges, electrical outlet boxes, switches, fuses, plugs, sockets, hand or machine tools, portable electrical tools, plumbing fittings, mill supplies, and garden tools including power lawn mowers and snow plows.  The wholesale or retail mail order sales of hardware are included under this classification. 

Other types of risks included under this classification are wholesale dealers of items such as, radio or television parts, aircraft parts and accessories, air conditioning or refrigerator parts, automobile parts and accessories, oil burners and parts, welding supplies such as tanks, torches, welding rods and face masks, cutlery, sewing machine heads and parts and bicycles, unicycles, tricycles – including rental, incidental service or repair.

This classification also includes “ship chandlers” who are dealers in ship supplies and equipment such as engine room equipment, lifeboat supplies, navigational instruments and deck gear.

Automobile brake linings-attaching to bands or drums – no installation

1. Wholesale or retail dealers principally engaged in selling:
   1. Plumbers’ supplies such as tubs, sinks, radiators, tanks, boilers, and other plumbing fixtures or equipment.  Refer to Code 8111 “Plumbers’ Supplies Dealer & Drivers.”
   2. Retail selling of foot powered bicycles, tricycles, unicycles, or bicycle parts.  Refer to Code 8025 “Bicycle Store – Retail – Including Rental, Incidental Service or Repair.”
   3. Wholesale selling of bicycle tires.  Refer to Code 8018 “Wholesale Store – NOC.”

Code 8215 applies to the operation of selling feed, fertilizer, grain, hay, and sacked or bulk seeds.  Dealers may deliver the merchandise to the customers or customers may pick up their orders at the dealer’s premises.

Operations include the blending of fertilizers and the incidental grinding or mixing of feed and the incidental sales of garden tools, hoses, and spray equipment.

1. Processing seeds.  Refer to Code 8102 “Seed Merchant.”

2. Selling:

   1. Seeds in bulk or packets by seed processors.  Refer to Code 8102 “Seed Merchant.”
   2. Seeds in packets retail.  Refer to Code 8017 “Retail Store – NOC – No Service of Food.”
   3. Two or more of any group of materials shown below provided that not any one group of materials exceeds 80% of total sales.  Refer to Code 8232 “Building Material Dealer – No Second-Hand Material & Local Managers, Drivers.”
      1. Agricultural implements of farm machinery
      2. Building materials including lumber
      3. Coal, fuel oil, wood or ice
      4. Hay, grain feed or seed

 Applies to any establishment providing health care services in the residences of individuals or families.

Code 9051 applies to home health care agencies that provide health care services at clients’ residences by sending personnel to care for convalescent, disabled, chronically ill, aged and/or infirm persons when these services are not done by licensed nurses or therapists.  The range of services includes bathing, dressing, grooming, changing topical bandages, diapering, administration of medications (but not by injection) with the supervision of a registered nurse, monitoring the client’s condition, preparation of meals and light housekeeping. 

Includes home health aides, personal care aides, all other types of home aides and home support personnel such as homemakers and companions, and services to shut-ins involving shopping or assistance with personal grooming.

Baby sitters – employed by home health care establishment

1. Domestic employees who cook clean, etc. and are in the direct employment of the household. Refer to Code 0908 “Domestic Workers – Inside – Occasional,” Code 0909 “Domestic Workers – Outside – Occasional – Including Occasional Chauffeurs,” Code 0912 “Domestic Workers – Outside – Including Private Chauffeurs,” and Code 0913 “Domestic Workers – Inside.”

2. Agencies sending employees to clients only to clean, cook etc. but not to assist with bathing, dressing, grooming or other health needs.  Refer to Code 0917 “Domestic Service Contractor – Inside.”

Includes private duty registered and licensed practical nurses, physical, speech and/or occupational therapists.

Code 8854 applies to establishments providing health care services for individuals or families in their residences, nursing homes, hospitals or schools but is not limited to nurses with a R.N. or L.P.N. degree, licensed physical, speech and/or occupational therapists.  This classification is also applicable for training patients to use at-home equipment such as respirators, intravenous apparatus or other medical devices.

Visiting nurse – hospice, in patients’ homes, public health, registered nurses

1. Medical and social case workers exclusively engaged in office work.  Refer to Code 8810 “Clerical Office Employees – NOC.”

2. Traveling:
   1. Daily skills service providers.  Refer to Code 9051 “Health Care Services – Daily Living Skills Services – Traveling.” 
   2. Medical and social case workers.  Refer to Code 8857 “Social Case Workers – Traveling.”

Shall not be assigned to an employer engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to Code 3307 are conducted as a separate and distinct business.

Code 3307 applies to employers engaged in all forms of heat-treating metal for other concerns.  The operations involve heat treating and annealing of metals by means of controlled applications of heat.  Heat treating of metal changes the physical and chemical properties of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in order to produce the desired hardness and toughness of products such as edge tools, machined parts, etc.

1. Metal anodizing – plating.  Electroplating, galvanizing, tinning or plating metal.  Oxidizing metal – dipping in acids or caustics – chemical milling.  Refer to Code 3372 “Electroplating.”

Code 8105 applies to wholesale or retail stores principally engaged in selling all kinds of raw or dressed animal hides, reptile skins and tanned leather.

Raw hides are usually received from slaughterhouses and are sorted, graded, salted by hand and shipped to tanneries for processing.  After processing at the tannery, the dressed and finished hides, skins and leather are returned to the dealers where they are graded, measured, edge trimmed by hand where necessary, stocked and shipped.

1. Dealers in fur skins, such as those used for clothing e.g., mink, ermine, sable, beaver, rabbit, fox, and raccoon.  Refer to Code 8018 “Wholesale Store – NOC.”

Code 8833 “Hospital – Professional Employees” and Code 9040 include the operation of a convalescent or nursing home when operated by a hospital at the same or an adjacent location.

Code 9040 applies to employers engaged in hospital operations and covers all other employees, other than professional employees of hospitals, such as janitors, maintenance or cafeteria employees.

1. Professional employees of a private or public hospital.  Refer to Code 8833 “Hospital – Professional Employees.”

2. Outpatient clinic and physicians operating an office not related to a hospital.  Refer to Code 8832 “Physician & Clerical.”

Code 8833 and Code 9040 “Hospital – All Other Employees” include the operation of a convalescent or nursing home when operated by a hospital at the same or an adjacent location.

Code 8833 applies to professional employees of all public or private hospitals.  Hospitals contemplated by this classification include general hospitals as well as those specializing in the treatment of specific infirmities.  In addition, this classification applies to other treatment facilities which provide inpatient stay and medical care such as abortion clinics, mental institutions, alcohol rehabilitation centers, foster homes, drug addiction centers and similar institutions. 

Convalescent or nursing home employees are also subject to this classification providing the facility is operated by a hospital.  Staff nurses who visit patients at locations away from the hospital are subject to this classification if it is not a separate and distinct business of the hospital.  Satellite dispensaries, emergency medical treatment facilities and clinics operating on the hospital’s premises are considered incidental to the hospital operation and are also subject to this classification.

1. Home for the elderly or nursing facility – without medical staff.  Refer to Code 8866 “Assisted Living Facility – All Employees & Clerical.”

2. Home for the mentally disabled, homeless, alcohol and drug addiction centers – without medical staff.  Refer to Code 8865 “Alcohol or Drug Rehabilitation Facility – All Employees & Clerical.”

3. Non-professional employees of a private or public hospital including cafeteria and maintenance employees.  Refer to Code 9040 “Hospital – All Other Employees.”

4. Nursing home – with medical staff.  Refer to Code 8829 “Convalescent or Nursing Home – All Employees.”

5. Outpatient clinic and physicians operating an office not related to a hospital.  Refer to Code 8832 “Physician & Clerical.”

Code 9044 applies to employers engaged in operating a casino with hotel accommodations.  This classification includes employees of the casino that are engaged in operating gaming tables, maintaining premises and equipment, providing change and security personnel.  Employees’ duties may consist of dealing cards, monitoring dice tables, and spinning wheels.  Also contemplated under the scope of this classification is the operation of a hotel that is owned and operated by the casino.  Customers will either make reservations in advance or schedule their stay at the front desk.  This classification includes desk clerks, bellhops and maids.

1. Restaurant Employees – including musicians, players or entertainers.  Refer to Code 9058 “Hotel – NOC – Restaurant Employees.”

2. Transport of patrons.  Refer to Code 8394 “Bus Company – All Other Employees & Drivers.”

3. Casino gambling operations without a hotel.  Refer to Code 9061 “Clubs – NOC – All Employees & Clerical.”

4. Musicians, players and entertainers when no restaurant or bar activities are conducted.  Refer to Code 9157 “Theatrical Production in Which Any Players or Entertainers Dance, Skate or Perform Acrobatic Acts – Players, Entertainers or Musicians” or Code 9159 “Theatrical Production – NOC – Players, Entertainers or Musicians.”

Code 9052 applies to employers engaged in operating hotels and/or motels.  The hotel may be operated year-round, as a resort hotel or on a seasonal basis.  The operation of retail gift stores, golf courses and parking garages is also inclusive under Code 9052.  This classification applies to all employees including front desk clerks, bellhops, maids, porters, elevator operators, managers, laundry workers, maintenance workers, telephone operators, store clerks, golf course employees, and garage employees. 

The maintenance of the hotel includes cleaning of the guest rooms.  Other employees such as maintenance workers and porters maintain the hotel facilities and grounds.  This classification includes desk clerks, bellhops, and store clerks who operate the gift shops, and managers.  Some hotels operate golf courses and parking garages for their guests.

This classification also contemplates the operation of boarding houses, motels, motor courts, tourist court cabins, apartment hotels and dude ranches.

Apartment house

1. Restaurant Employees – including musicians, players or entertainers.  Refer to Code 9058 “Hotel – NOC – Restaurant Employees.”

2. Transport of patrons.  Refer to Code 8394 “Bus Company – All Other Employees & Drivers.”

3. Casino gambling operations, without a hotel.  Refer to Code 9061 “Clubs – NOC – All Employees & Clerical.”

4. Musicians, players and entertainers when no restaurant or bar activities are conducted.  Refer to Code 9157 “Theatrical Production in Which Any Players or Entertainers Dance, Skate or Perform Acrobatic Acts – Players, Entertainers or Musicians” or Code 9159 “Theatrical Production – NOC – Players, Entertainers or Musicians."

Includes musicians, players or entertainers.

May only be used in conjunction with either Code 9044 “Hotel – Casino Gambling – All Other Employees & Outside Salespersons” or Code 9052 “Hotel – NOC – All Other Employees & Drivers” for restaurant and/or beverage service operations conducted within or adjacent to a hotel or motel.

Code 9058 applies to employers engaged in operating a restaurant or bar located within or adjacent to a hotel or motel.  This classification applies to all employees including waiters, waitresses, cashiers, managers and bartenders preparing food and beverages for patrons.  Customers come into the restaurant and order food and beverages from the wait staff.  Cooks prepare various foods in the kitchen. 

The restaurant or bar must be operated under the management of the hotel or motel in order to qualify for this classification.  Restaurants and/or bars not owned or managed by a hotel are not subject to this classification.

• Disc jockeys – employed at a hotel restaurant
• Operation of bar or restaurant on or adjacent to hotel premises – dude ranches
• Tavern – restaurant employees

1. Transport of patrons.  Refer to Code 8394 “Bus Company – All Other Employees & Drivers.”

2. Casino gambling operations, without a hotel.  Refer to Code 9061 “Clubs – NOC – All Employees & Clerical.”

3. Restaurants:
   1. Full-service not owned or managed by a hotel.  Refer to Code 9071 “Restaurant – Full-Service – Including Entertainers and/or Musicians.” 
   2. Fast-food not owned or managed by a hotel.  Refer to Code 9072 “Restaurant – Fast Food & Drivers.”

4. Bar or tavern not owned or managed by a hotel.  Refer to Code 9074 “Bar, Dance Club, Lounge, Nightclub or Tavern – Including Entertainers and/or Musicians.”

5. Hotel operations.  Refer to Code 9052 “Hotel – NOC – All Other Employees & Drivers.”

Code 9521 applies to employers engaged in the installation of house furnishings at residential or commercial establishments.  The employer will install furnishings such as carpet, venetian blinds, window shades, tapestries, cornices, framed mirrors, slip covers and other similar items at the customer’s locations.  This classification also includes the installation of curtains or draperies from the floor using step ladders.  Upholstering is also contemplated under this classification if the operation is done away from the employer’s shop and is an incidental part to their house furnishing installation business.

• Automobile, bus or truck upholstering
• Displays – windows – animated displays, mechanical, store window decorating, party decorators, theatrical scenery

1. Drapery installation – from scaffolding and wreaths hanging – exterior street decorating.  Refer to Code 9539 “Awning, Tent or Canvas Goods Erection, Removal or Repair – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”

2.  Upholstering.  Refer to Code 9522 “Upholstering.”

Includes shop or outside employees and incidental parts department employees.

Code 9519 applies to employers engaged in installation, service and repair of electrical household appliances and products such as refrigerators, televisions, microwave ovens, video recorders, electric dryers, vacuum cleaners, CD/DVD players, dishwashers, washing machines, sewing machines, etc. regardless of size.

Installation is conducted by technicians who install the appliances at the customer’s location by setting them in place and making all connections, and providing instructions on the operation of the units.

Repair or service to household appliances and products are is conducted either in the employer’s shop or at the customer’s location.

This classification also contemplates the installation of audio or communication units in vehicles when sold by telephone stores and the service and repair of automobile electronic units.

1. Electrical wiring for appliances. Refer to Code 5190 “Electrical Wiring – Within Buildings – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”

2. Plumbing or pipe work for appliances. Refer to Code 5183 “Plumbing – NOC – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”

3. Installation/Service/Repair:

   1. Commercial – type air conditioners. Refer to Code 3724 “Machinery or Equipment Erection or Installation – NOC – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”
   2. Office appliances or machines.  Refer to Code 5191 “Office Machine Installation, Inspection, Adjustment or Repair.”
   3. Radios, CB, or cellular telephones in automobiles – by auto accessory store.  Refer to Code 8046 “Automobile Accessories Store – NOC – Retail & Drivers.”
   4. Commercial sewing machine installation. Refer to Code 3724 “Machinery or Equipment Erection or Installation – NOC – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”
   5. Commercial sewing machine service or repair. Refer to Code 3737 “Machinery or Equipment Repair or Servicing at Customers’ Premises – NOC – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”