WC & EL / PART TWO / CLASSIFICATION CODE INTERPRETATIONS

Note:

Code 1624 and Code 1170 “Mining – NOC – With Shafts, Tunnels or Drifts & Drivers” shall not be assigned to the same risk unless the operations described by these classifications are conducted as separate and distinct businesses.

Code 1624 applies to employers engaged in quarrying several types of materials such as cement rock, argillaceous limestone, ballast rock, agricultural limestone, bluestone, limestone, sandstone, silica, and granite.  This classification includes crushing, washing, screening, grading, and storing of stone by quarry operator, whether performed at the quarry or at a separate location.

This classification includes the operation of crushers, construction, repair or maintenance of all buildings, structures or equipment; and installation of machinery. 

In quarry operations for limestone, sandstone, bluestone and granite, the face of the rock is drilled to allow for placement of blasting charges, detonating charges and for the removal of loosened rock with power shovels, payloaders or front-end loaders.  Slate is usually removed by hand cutting rather than blasting, but occasionally blasting may be required.  Loosened stone is cut by pneumatic drills, hydraulic cutters, stone saws, guillotine cutters or hand tools (mallets and wedges or hand picks).  Stone can also be crushed, washed, screened and graded.  The cutting of stone is inclusive when performed at the quarry site.

• Coal – surface mining
• Emery – mining

1. Stone cutting performed away from the quarry site.  Refer to Code 1809 “Stone Cutting or Polishing – Marble or Limestone & Drivers” or Code 1810 “Stone Cutting or Polishing – NOC & Drivers.”  

2. Digging sand or gravel for others.  Refer to Code 4000 “Sand or Gravel Digging & Drivers.”

3. Mining gold in drifts, shafts or tunnels; underground or clay; fluorite, natural graphite, gypsum, natural lead, manganese, mica, molybdenum, nickel, ore (not coal), phosphate, salt, silica, or talc.  Refer to Code 1170 “Mining – NOC – With Shafts, Tunnels or Drifts & Drivers.” 

Note:

Code 8012 applies to risks that provide reproductions by means of offset type duplicators on paper sizes less than 18 X 23 inches.  Finishing operations include, but are not limited to, automatic and manual platemaking, assembling, stapling and binding of materials.

Code 8012 applies to employers engaged in operations which consist of printing for others.  The employer will receive artwork or text from clients and a photo is taken.  The negatives are produced, washed and stripped onto goldenrod sheets.  The goldenrod sheets are pre-sensitized aluminum plates that are exposed to light with the image being burned onto the plate.  Some employers may contract out the plate making and only perform printing.  However, plate making is inclusive under this operation.  After the plate is made, the employer will produce copies on their presses.

Collating, hole punching, cutting and wire stitching are also inclusive operations under this classification.  Although hole punching, cutting and wire stitching are inclusive, the employer may only do these operations to the products they are printing.

• Addressing, letter or mailing service companies
• Offset printing

1. Blueprint duplicating.  Refer to Code 4361 “Photographer – All Employees & Drivers.”

2. Photocopy service, no plate making.  Refer to Code 8016 “Photocopy Shops – All Employees & Clerical, Outside Salespersons, Drivers.”

3. Printing for an employer’s own business and not being sold to others.  Assign the governing classification.

4. Printing on paper larger than 18 X 23 inches.  Refer to Code 4299 “Printing.”