Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-4301 - Classification 4301

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
4301-10 Sausage: Manufacturing
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in manufacturing sausage.
The process of manufacturing sausage may
				include:
* Grinding, mixing, and blending cuts of meat with seasonings,
				spices, and fillers;
* Filling synthetic or natural casings or packing meat into
				forms;
* Cooking in pressurized cooking tanks;
* Curing by pumping or injecting a curing solution into the
				meat or by dry rubbing a curing substance into the meat and immersing it in a
				brine solution. Curing solutions usually contain one or more chemicals, such as
				sodium or potassium nitrate, ascorbate, or erythorbate, and water. The meats
				may then cure for up to 40 days;
* Smoking meat for a period of several hours to several days in
				a temperature controlled smokehouse;
* Packaging, canning, jarring, or freezing.
Equipment used include, but are not limited
				to:
* Cooking tanks;
* Cutting instruments;
* Grinders;
* Mixers;
* Pots.
Exclusions:
* Retail meat and poultry dealers are classified in
				3303;
* Worker hours engaged in handling livestock are reported
				separately in the applicable classification;
* Businesses that manufacture other meat products, including
				combined with manufacturing sausage, are classified in 4301-12;
* Natural sausage casings dealers are classified in
				4301-19.
4301-11 Packing house
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in packing house operations which include
				the handling and slaughtering of livestock and the preparation of fresh meat
				and meat products. Meat packing and processing operations may be consolidated
				or may be in different locations.
This classification includes incidental:
* Butter substitutes manufacturing;
* Cooking of offal (waste);
* Fertilizer manufacturing;
* Lard refining;
* Processing of the viscera manually or by machine;
* Rendering;
* Salting of hides;
* Sausage and other meat product manufacturing;
* Washing of casings.
Packing house processes may include:
* Moving livestock through a system of chutes and conveyors,
				through a stunning machine, and then into the slaughtering area;
* Slaughter of livestock;
* Draining, collecting and storing blood;
* Dipping carcasses into scald tanks;
* Conveying carcasses to dehairer machines;
* Removing hides;
* Weighing and inspecting carcasses;
* Placing carcasses in blast freezers or coolers;
* Cutting carcasses into portions and specific cuts of
				meat;
* Packing prepared meats in cans, bottles, or jars that are
				then sealed and cooked in vats;
* Placing products in cardboard boxes and loading onto
				pallets.
Equipment used include, but are not limited
				to:
* Cleavers;
* Hoists;
* Hydraulic dropper/spreaders;
* Knives;
* Meat chippers;
* Razors;
* Scissors;
* Scrapers.
Exclusions:
* Retail meat and poultry dealers are classified in
				3303;
* Wholesale meat dealers and poultry processors/dealers are
				classified in 3304;
* Businesses primarily engaged in sausage manufacturing are
				classified in 4301-10;
* Meat products manufacturing is classified in 4301-12;
* Natural sausage casings dealers are classified in
				4301-19;
* Slaughterhouse only operations are classified in
				4301-22;
* Custom meat cutting is classified in 4302.
4301-12 Meat products: Manufacturing
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in meat products manufacturing, including
				canning or dehydrating. No handling or slaughtering of livestock is performed
				by employers subject to this classification.
Products manufactured include, but are not limited
				to:
* Bologna;
* Frankfurters;
* Head cheese;
* Meat loaf;
* Sausage.
The process of meat products manufacturing may
				include:
* Receiving meats halves, quarters, or individual fresh
				cuts;
* Washing, soaking in brine, smoking, pickling, corning, or
				otherwise cooking cuts of meat;
* Bottling in jars, bottles, or sealing in cans;
* Chopping, grinding, mixing, smoking, boiling, or stuffing
				meat trimmings in sausage casings.
Equipment used include, but are not limited
				to:
* Bottling equipment or tools;
* Cutting instruments;
* Grinders;
* Mixers.
Exclusions:
* Retail meat and poultry dealers are classified in
				3303;
* Wholesale meat dealers and wholesale poultry
				processors/dealers are classified in 3304;
* Businesses primarily engaged in sausage manufacturing are
				classified in 4301-10;
* Packing house operations are classified in 4301-11;
* Natural sausage casings dealers are classified in
				4301-19;
* Glue, tallow, and lard manufacturing are classified in
				4301-21;
* Slaughterhouse operations are classified in 4301-22;
* Custom meat cutting is classified in 4302.
4301-13 Peat moss: Shredding and baling
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in the shredding and baling of peat moss,
				including cleaning, sorting and packaging of peat moss to be used as mulch,
				plant food (fertilizer), soil amendment, fuel, or decorative uses such as in
				floral arrangements.
Exclusions:
* Digging or stripping of peat from the surface of bogs with
				use of mechanical equipment is classified in 0112;
* Picking of moss by hand in a forest is classified in
				4802.
4301-17 Tanneries, fur manufacturing
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in tannery operations. These businesses
				usually process raw hides and skins into fur pelts, leather, or suede for sale
				to dealers or manufacturers of leather or fur products. Taxidermists often send
				hides to a tannery rather than treating them at their own shops.
Tannery processes may include:
* Receiving hides;
* Rehydrating cured hides;
* Removing excess flesh and tissue using fleshing machines and
				with hand knives;
* Agitating in a lime solution to soften and remove hair or
				fur;
* Deliming, cleaning, and softening using water and a variety
				of chemicals, such as enzymes, sulfates, or chlorides;
* Vegetable tanning, soaking in a tannin solution in oversized
				vats;
* Chemical tanning, rotating in revolving drums containing a
				highly alkaline chemical, such as sodium carbonate, bicarbonate, or chromium
				sulfate;
* Removing excess moisture using oversized wringers;
* Splitting, bleaching, and dying hides;
* Stretching hides;
* Drying using air drying techniques, drying units with
				temperature and humidity controls, tunnel dryers, vacuum drying techniques, or
				drying using a high-frequency electromagnetic field;
* Brushing to buff out imperfections or to raise the nap
				resulting in suede;
* Finishing by applying coatings to the leather's grain
				side;
* Glazing to produce patent leather;
* Plating or embossing using a plating press;
* Baling shredded hide for sale to glue makers;
* Hand sewing tears in hides.
Equipment used include, but are not limited
				to:
* Agitating drum machines;
* Brushing machines;
* Drying units, tunnels, and other drying equipment;
* Hide shaving and fleshing machines;
* Knives;
* Plating presses;
* Vats;
* Wringing machines.
Exclusions:
* Hide or leather dealers are classified in 3708;
* Businesses engaged in hide pelting are classified in
				3708;
* Taxidermists are classified in 3708.
4301-19 Sausage casing dealers
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in the sales and distribution of natural
				sausage casings to others. Natural casings are animal intestines, usually
				received from packing houses or rendering plants.
Work activities include:
* Wash, dry, sort, and package casings for distribution.
Exclusion:
* Businesses engaged in sausage manufacturing are classified in
				4301-10.
4301-21 Rendering works, N.O.C.; Glue, lard, or tallow:
				Manufacturing
Applies to:
* Businesses engaged in rendering operations not covered by
				another classification (N.O.C.). Rendering is the act of reducing or melting
				down fat by heating.
* Businesses engaged in the manufacturing of products from
				animal substances such as glue, lard, and tallow.
Work activities and processes may include, but are not
				limited to:
* Receiving raw animal materials such as, discarded fat, bone
				trimmings, meat scraps, blood, grease, and feathers from farms, stockyards,
				slaughterhouses, butcher shops, supermarkets, restaurants, meat and poultry
				stores, ranches, or feed lots;
* Removing hides for shipment to hide dealers and
				tanneries;
* Cutting carcasses into workable sizes;
* Placing carcasses into tanks where steam passes directly into
				the materials being cooked. Grease is drawn off and meat and bones drop into a
				slush box. The slush is then pressed to remove more water and grease before
				going to steam pressure dryers. In some plants this is all performed with one
				piece of equipment;
* Boiling animal substances, including skins and hoofs, in
				water until the materials are diluted and melted, then drying to form a hard
				pure protein gelatin;
* Separating the hard fat from parts of cattle, sheep, or horse
				carcasses by melting it from the fibrous and membranous matter, then mixing the
				whitish solids for use in making candles, leather dressing, soap, and
				lubricants;
* Making or refining lard;
* Crushing, grinding, pressing, drying, pulverizing, and
				bagging of dried slush or tankage to produce fish meal, bone meal, feed
				concentrates for livestock and poultry, or fertilizer;
* Pumping fish oils and animal grease or tallow into receiving
				or settling tanks;
* Filling barrels, drums or tank cars for shipment to
				manufacturers of assorted products such as soap, cosmetics, lubricants, paints,
				and plastics.
Equipment used include, but are not limited
				to:
* Blow tanks;
* Boiling pots;
* Bucket elevators;
* Conveyors;
* Crushers;
* Dryers;
* Grinders;
* Hashers;
* Hoggers;
* Prebreakers;
* Pumps;
* Razors;
* Scrapers;
* Screw presses;
* Steam-heater batch corkers;
* Wastewater treatment equipment.
Exclusions:
* Slaughterhouse operations are classified in 4301-22;
* Manufacturing synthetic glues, such as acrylic base, contact
				cement, polyester, latex combination, epoxy sticks, polyethylene, polyvinyl,
				cellulose nitrate, or rubber base, is classified in 3701;
* Packing houses are classified in 4301-11.
4301-22 Slaughterhouses
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in the slaughter of animals and the initial
				processing of meat. This includes purchasing livestock from individuals or
				feedlots, handling the livestock, maintaining pens, and butchering.
Slaughterhouse processes include, but are not limited
				to:
* Preparation of the animal carcass;
* Washing of casings;
* Salting of hides;
* Cooking of offal (waste);
* Distributing to buyers using box freezer or container
				trucks.
Equipment used include, but are not limited
				to:
* Cleavers;
* Hoists;
* Hydraulic dropper/spreaders;
* Knives;
* Meat chippers;
* Razors;
* Scissors;
* Scrapers;
* Stunning machines.
Exclusions:
* Retail meat and poultry dealers are classified in
				3303;
* Wholesale meat dealers and wholesale poultry
				processors/dealers are classified in 3304;
* Packing houses are classified in 4301-11;
* Manufacturing meat products is classified in 4301-12;
* Custom meat cutting is classified in 4302.
07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-4301, filed 12/8/06,
				  effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.16.035. 98-18-042, § 296-17-630,
				  filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 88-12-050 (Order 88-06), § 296-17-630,
				  filed 5/31/88, effective 7/1/88; 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-630,
				  filed 11/27/85, effective 1/1/86; 85-06-026 (Order 85-7), § 296-17-630,
				  filed 2/28/85, effective 4/1/85. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.04.020(1) and
				  51.16.035. 78-12-043 (Order
				  78-23), § 296-17-630, filed 11/27/78, effective 1/1/79; Order 76-36,
				  § 296-17-630, filed 11/30/76; Order 75-38, § 296-17-630, filed
				  11/24/75, effective 1/1/76; Order 74-40, § 296-17-630, filed 11/27/74,
				  effective 1/1/75; Order 73-22, § 296-17-630, filed 11/9/73, effective
				  1/1/74.