Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-5001 - Classification 5001

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
5001-03 Logging, N.O.C.
Applies to establishments engaged in various logging operations
				not covered by another classification (N.O.C). Typical work contemplated by
				this classification includes, but is not limited to, high lead or tower
				logging, ground logging, and team logging with horses. For purposes of this
				rule, logging is the complete operation of felling, skidding, yarding,
				delimbing, and bucking of trees into logs or block wood and loading them onto
				trucks or rail cars.
Definitions
:
High Lead or Tower Logging
- Usually occurs in
				steep terrain where a metal tower is set-up on a hilltop with a system of heavy
				cables running down the hillside and fastened to a stump or tree and has other
				smaller cables with chokers hanging from it. A choker is wrapped around each
				fallen tree and pulled back to the landing site.
Helicopter logging
- Includes ground crews
				that work with the use of helicopters to hoist fallen trees or bucked log
				lengths to the landing side.
Chokers
- Chains or cables which are attached
				to the fallen trees for skidding to the landing site.
Ground logging
- Usually occurs on relatively
				flat land; fallen trees are moved to a landing by a skidder, cat or
				shovel.
Bucking
- Stripping or delimbing tree of
				branches and cutting the tree to desired log lengths.
Skidding
- Process of dragging the fallen logs
				to the landing site.
Landing
- Place where the fallen logs are
				brought for sorting and loading onto log trucks.
Yarding
- Usually performed at the landing
				site with use of a log loader to sort the logs by species, length and diameter,
				prior to loading onto log trucks.
This classification excludes flight crews of helicopters used
				in helicopter logging which are to be reported separately in classification
				6803; log hauling which is to be reported separately in classification 5003;
				logging road construction which is to be reported separately in classification
				6902; logging machine operators which are to be reported separately in
				classification 5005-01; and mechanical or mechanized logging operations which
				are to be reported separately in classification 5005-00 provided the
				classification has been approved by the classification services section.
5001-04 Shake, shingle bolt, and post
				cutting
Applies to establishments engaged in the cutting of shakes,
				shingle bolts (blocks), and fence posts in the woods. For the purposes of this
				rule, this classification includes all operations performed in the woods such
				as, but not limited to, the felling of trees, stripping or delimbing of
				branches, and all further cutting or splitting of trees/logs to produce shakes,
				shingle bolts or fence posts. This classification includes all transporting of
				shakes, shingle bolts or fence posts from the cutting site when conducted by
				employees of employers subject to this classification.
5001-05 Firewood cutting
Applies to establishments engaged in the cutting of firewood in
				the woods. For the purposes of this rule, this classification includes all
				operations performed in the woods such as, but not limited to, the felling of
				trees, stripping or delimbing of branches, and all further cutting or splitting
				of trees/logs to produce firewood. This classification includes all
				transporting of log lengths, rounds or split wood from the cutting site when
				conducted by employees of employers subject to this classification.
5001-06 Sawmill operations conducted in the woods in
				connection with logging operations
Applies to establishments operating a temporary or portable
				sawmill operation in the woods. This type of work is usually performed on
				privately owned land. A portable sawmill and saw tables, similar to those at a
				permanent sawmill location, are transported directly to the logging site. Log
				lengths are fed through a circular saw that is capable of producing various
				sized rough cut timber, blocks, boards and planks. This classification includes
				all transporting of rough cut timber, blocks, boards and planks from the
				cutting and/or sawing site when conducted by employees of employers subject to
				this classification.
This classification excludes sawmill operations which are not
				conducted in the woods in connection with a logging operation which is to be
				reported separately in the applicable sawmill classification.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  51.16.035 and
				  51.16.100. 09-24-082, §
				  296-17A-5001, filed 11/30/09, effective 1/1/10; 07-12-047, § 296-17A-5001,
				  filed 5/31/07, effective 7/1/07. 07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-5001,
				  filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.04.020,
				  51.16.035, and
				  51.12.120. 03-23-025, §
				  296-17-659, filed 11/12/03, effective 1/1/04. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  51.16.035. 98-18-042, § 296-17-659,
				  filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 96-12-039, § 296-17-659, filed 5/31/96,
				  effective 7/1/96; 86-12-041 (Order 86-18), § 296-17-659, filed 5/30/86,
				  effective 7/1/86; 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-659, filed 11/27/85,
				  effective 1/1/86; 85-06-026 (Order 85-7), § 296-17-659, filed 2/28/85,
				  effective 4/1/85; 83-24-017 (Order 83-36), § 296-17-659, filed 11/30/83,
				  effective 1/1/84; 80-17-016 (Order 80-23), § 296-17-659, filed 11/13/80,
				  effective 1/1/81. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.04.020(1) and
				  51.16.035. 78-12-043 (Order
				  78-23), § 296-17-659, filed 11/27/78, effective 1/1/79; Order 77-27,
				  § 296-17-659, filed 11/30/77, effective 1/1/78; Order 75-38, §
				  296-17-659, filed 11/24/75, effective 1/1/76; Order 73-22, § 296-17-659,
				  filed 11/9/73, effective 1/1/74.