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Classification / Code No.
Abrasive Wheel Mfg & Drivers
Ore milling or the mfg. of artificial abrasives to be separately rated. / 1701
Abstract or Title Co - All Employees - & Clerical, Messengers, Drivers / 8820
Accountant, Auditor or Factory Cost or Office Systematizer - Traveling / 8803
Acetylene Gas Mfg & Drivers
Includes tank charging. / 4635
Acid Mfg Noc / 4815
Acoustical Material Installation & Drivers / 5479
Adding, Computing, Recording or Office Machine Mfg Noc / 3574
Addressing or Mailing Co & Drivers / 4299
Adhesives Mfg - Plastic - Sheets & Liquid / 4459
Advertising Agency - Includes Photography & Photo Engraving / 4351
Advertising Circular Distribution - by Contract - & Drivers / 7230
Advertising Co & Drivers
Applicable to outdoor advertising companies and includes shop operations; the erection, painting, repair, maintenance or removal of signs; sign painting or lettering in or upon buildings or structures. / 9552
Aerobic Studios & Drivers / 9063
Aerosol Canning - Pressurized / 4819
Agate or Enamel Ware Mfg / 3224
Agricultural Machinery Mfg / 3507
Agriculture Chemicals Mfg - Highly Poisonous / 4811
Agriculture Land Clearing & Drivers / 6219
Air Conditioner Filter Mfg - Metal / 3257
Air Conditioner Mfg - Refrigerated - Auto and Window Type / 3179
Air Conditioning Coil Mfg / 3179
Air Conditioning Compressor Repair - Shop / 3179
Air Conditioning Duct Cleaning Service / 9014
Air Conditioning Filter Service - by Contract / 9014
Air Conditioning Systems - Heating and/or Cooling:
Not Portable:
Duct Fabrication or Installation & Drivers / 5536
Installation and Service of Packaged or Central Units including Plumbing & Drivers / 5183
Installation of Air Conditioning Machinery & Drivers / 3724
Portable Units:
Installation and Service Window Units & Drivers / 5190
Air Filtering Equipment Mfg - Electric / 3179
Air Flow Balancing of Air Conditioning Systems
Does not apply when engaged in actual construction. Shall not be assigned to a risk engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to 8601 are conducted as a separate and distinct business. / 8601
Air Pressure or Steam Gauge Mfg / 3685
Air Traffic Controllers / 8810
Air Traffic Reporters / 7418
Aircraft Automatic Pilot Mfg / 3685
Aircraft Dismantling for Usable Parts & Drivers / 3821
Aircraft Engine Mfg / 3805
Aircraft Fueling - Ground Operations by Contract - & Drivers / 8350
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Aircraft Ground School
Applies to employees engaged in classroom instruction only. Field or hangar instruction to be separately rated as 7423 aircraft operations. / 8858
Aircraft Ground Support Equipment Repair & Drivers / 7423
Aircraft Instrument Installation or Repair & Drivers / 7423
Aircraft Operations - Banner Towing:
Flying Crew / 7418
All Other Employees & Drivers / 7423
Aircraft or Helicopter Operation:
Aerial Application, seeding, or herding:
Flying Crew / 7418
All Other Employees & Drivers / 7423
Air Carrier - Commuter:
Applies to commuter air carriers operating under Part 135 or Part 127 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, and which conduct at least five round trips per week between two or more points and publish flight schedules that specify the times and days of the week and places between which such flights are performed. Ticket sellers and information clerks away from the airport locations to be separately rated as 8810 clerical.
Flying Crew / 7418
All Other Employees & Drivers / 7423
Air Carrier - Scheduled or Supplemental:
Applies to scheduled or commercial air carriers, including cargo carriers, certified as such and operating under Part 121 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. Ticket sellers and information clerks away from the airport locations to be separately rated as 8810 clerical.
Flying Crew / 7405
All Other Employees & Drivers / 7423
Aircraft or Helicopter Operation: (cont.)
Flight Testing by Mfr - Aircraft Manufactured Under An Approved Type Certificate - Flying Crew / 7422
Flight Testing by Mfr - Prototype or Experimental Aircraft - Flying Crew / 7418
Noc:
Flying Crew / 7422
All Other Employees & Drivers
As respects aerial photography, the payroll of the ground laboratory employees shall be assigned to 4361 photographer. Ticket sellers and information clerks away from the airport to be separately rated as 8810 clerical. / 7423
Patrol, Photography other than mapping or survey work:
Flying Crew
Aerial photography-mapping or survey work-to be rated as 7422 photographer-aerial mapping. / 7418
All Other Employees & Drivers
As respects aerial photography, the payroll of the ground laboratory employees shall be assigned to 4361 photographer. / 7423
Public Exhibition involving stunt flying, racing or parachute jumping:
Flying Crew / 7418
All Other Employees & Drivers / 7423
Sales or Service Agency: taxi or sight-seeing; student instruction:
Flying Crew / 7422
All Other Employees & Drivers / 7423
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Aircraft or Helicopter Operation: (cont.)
Transportation of Personnel in conduct of employer's business:
Flying Crew
Commercial aircraft operation to be separately rated. A policy surcharge of $100 per passenger seat, subject to a maximum surcharge of $1,000 per aircraft, shall be charged in addition to the premium otherwise determined under this classification. These surcharges shall not be cumulative in the event of substitution of aircraft during the policy period; but these surcharges shall be cumulative in the event more than one aircraft is owned or operated during the same policy period. / 7421
Ground Crew & Drivers / 7423
Aircraft Painting & Drivers / 8391
Aircraft Parts Dealer - Retail - Drivers / 8017
Aircraft Parts Dealer - Wholesale - & Drivers / 8018
Aircraft Propeller Repair Shop - No Aircraft Exposure / 3805
Aircraft Radio Mfg / 3681
Aircraft Servicing or Repair & Drivers / 7423
Aircraft Sub-Assemblies Mfg / 3066
Aircraft Washing - by Contract - Drivers / 7423
Airplane Mfg / 3830
Airport or Heliport Operator - All Employees - & Drivers
Ticket sellers and information clerks away from the airport locations to be separately rated as 8810 clerical. Members of flying crew to be separately rated under the appropriate aircraft operation classification. / 7423
Airport Runway Construction & Drivers / 5506
Airport Runway Lighting Installation & Drivers / 5190
Alarm Monitoring & Clerical / 8901
Alcohol Mfg - Wood - & Drivers
Includes distillation. / 1472
Ale or Beer Dealer - Wholesale - & Drivers
Codes 7390 and 2121 brewery shall not be assigned to the same risk unless the operations described by these classifications are conducted as separate and distinct businesses. / 7390
Alfalfa Dehydrating and Processing / 2014
Alligator Control - Removal of Nuisance Alligators - & Drivers / 8831
Alligator Farm & Drivers / 0113
Aloe Vera Plant Processing & Drivers / 4611
Aluminum Awning Erection & Drivers / 5403
Aluminum Awning Mfg / 3066
Aluminum Boat Mfg - Pleasure Craft / 6823
Aluminum Can Collection Station - No Processing - & Drivers / 8017
Aluminum Can Recycling or Shredding & Drivers / 8264
Aluminum Door, Window and Frame Installation & Drivers / 5102
Aluminum Door, Window and Frame Mfg / 3066
Aluminum Extrusion Mfg / 3227
Aluminum Foundry - Cast Form Process / 3085
Aluminum Paneling or sheet metal facing Installation - Building Exteriors - & Drivers / 5538
Aluminum Ware Mfg
Applies to goods manufactured from sheet aluminum. / 3227
Ambulance Body Mfg / 3822
Ambulance Service - Air Ambulance:
Flying Crew / 7422
Medical Personnel / 8833
Ambulance Service by Contract Drivers / 7720
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Ammonia Diluting and Bottling / 4815
Ammonia Mfg
Mfg. of nitric acid and ammonium nitrate to be separately rated as 4815 acid mfg. / 4811
Ammonium Nitrate Mfg / 4815
Amusement Device Operation Noc - not traveling - & Drivers
Includes ticket sellers or collectors and applies to the operation and maintenance of merry-go-rounds, swings, roller coasters and similar amusement devices not otherwise classified. / 9016
Amusement Device Operator, Carnival or Circus - Traveling - All Employees & Drivers
The entire remuneration of all employees shall be included in computing premium, subject, however, to the maximum average weekly wage per employee shown under Miscellaneous Values as "Maximum Remuneration." / 9186
Amusement Park or Exhibition Operation & Drivers
Applies to the operation by owners or lessees and includes musicians and box office employees. This classification does not apply to amusements, exhibitions or other operations separately classified in this Manual (such as bath houses, billiard halls, boat livery, bowling lanes, dance halls, restaurants, retail stores, theaters) whether operated by the owner or lessee of the exhibition or amusement park or through independent concession. / 9016
Analytical Chemist
Includes laboratory and outside employees. Shall not be assigned to a risk engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to 4511 are conducted as a separate and distinct business. / 4511
Anchor Bolt Mfg / 3132
Anchor Tie-Down Mfg for Mobile Homes / 3146
Anchoring Oil or Gas Drilling Rigs - by Contract - & Drivers / 6219
Anhydrous Ammonia Application - Agricultural - by Contract & Drivers / 0037
Anhydrous Ammonia Dealer & Drivers / 8350
Anhydrous Ammonia Mfg / 4811
Animal Shelters & Drivers / 8831
Anodizing
Shall not be assigned to a risk engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to 3372 are conducted as a separate and distinct business. / 3372
Antenna Maintenance - Radar - & Drivers / 5190
Antenna Mfg - Microwave / 3179
Anti-Toxin, Serum or Virus Mfg & Drivers / 4611
Apartment Buildings and Motels - Erection - Wood Frame & Drivers / 5403
Apartment House Operation
Managers/Directors performing clerical duties exclusively to be rated as 8810. Managers/Directors or leasing agents performing outside salesperson duties such as showing, leasing, or inspecting property to be rated as 8742. Managers/Directors performing maintenance duties or directly supervising maintenance work to be rated as 9032. / 9032
Apiaries & Drivers / 0113
Appliance Dealer - Retail - & Drivers
Includes servicing or repairing. Applies to shop and outside work. No electric wiring or erection of antennae. / 8017
Appliance Dealer - Wholesale - & Drivers / 8018
Appliance Repair - Commercial - & Drivers / 5190
Appraisers - Tax / 8742
Aquatic Plants - Growing & Harvesting - & Drivers / 0035
Aqueduct Construction & Drivers / 6319
Archery Supplies Mfg / 4902
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Architect or Engineer - Consulting
Does not apply when engaged in actual construction. Shall not be assigned to a risk engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to 8601 are conducted as a separate and distinct business. / 8601
Armored Car Operation - by Contract - & Drivers / 7720
Arms Mfg - Small
Applies to arms .50 caliber or under. Cartridge mfg. or cartridge loading to be separately rated. / 3629
Art & Craft Supply Dealer - Wholesale - & Drivers / 8018
Art & Craft Supply Store - Retail - & Drivers / 8017
Artificial Insemination - Animals & Fowls - & Drivers / 8831
Artificial Turf Installation & Drivers / 5220
Asbestos Insulation Removal from Buildings & Drivers / 5479
Asbestos Insulation Removal from Pipes or Boilers & Drivers / 5183
Ashes, Garbage or Refuse Collection & Drivers
Reduction, rendering or fertilizer plants to be separately rated. / 9402
Asphalt Application on Parking Areas & Drivers / 5220
Asphalt - Blending & Mixing of Liquid Additives - Not Batch Plant & Drivers
Batch Plant to be rated as 1463. / 4712
Asphalt or Tar Distilling or Refining & Drivers
Includes the mfg. of products obtained from the distilling or refining of tar or asphalt and the saturation of paper or felt with tar or asphalt. / 4712
Asphalt Products Mfg NOC / 4283
Asphalt Works & Drivers
Includes grinding, pulverizing or mixing asphalt. Digging, mining or quarrying to be separately rated. / 1463
Asphalt Works:
Operated by Road Paving Contractors - Permanent Location - & Drivers / 1463
Operated by Road Paving Contractors - Temporary Location - & Drivers / 5506
Assaying
Includes laboratory and outside employees. Shall not be assigned to a risk engaged in operations described by another classification unless the operations subject to 4511 are conducted as a separate and distinct business. / 4511
Athletic Park Operation & Drivers
Applies to all employees other than players, coaches, managers or umpires. / 9182
Athletic Team:
Applies to players, coaches, managers or umpires and includes all players on salary list of insured, whether regularly played or not.
The entire remuneration of all employees shall be included in computing premium, subject, however, to a minimum of $500 per employee per season and the maximum average weekly wage per employee shown under Miscellaneous Values as "Maximum Remuneration."
Athletic or Recreational activities carried on in connection with commercial and mercantile risks shall be charged the minimum premium for this classification in addition to any other premium appearing on the policy and shall be subject to pro rata adjustment if policy is canceled.
Contact Sports
Contact sports include football, hockey and roller derbies. / 9179
Non-Contact Sports
Non-contact sports include baseball and basketball. / 9178
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