Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-0308 - Classification 0308

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
0308-00 Chemical spraying and fumigating
Applies to establishments engaged in providing chemical
				spraying and fumigating services only to established residential landscaping
				and commercial properties. Work contemplated by this classification includes,
				but is not limited to, the application of various liquid and granular chemicals
				(fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, iron, nitrogen, slow
				release food stakes) for use on grass, plants, shrubs, flowers, trees, moss,
				ivy or weeds. Employees of establishments subject to this classification arrive
				at the location site in a tank truck equipped with a premixed solution that is
				dispensed with a spray hose, or by fertilizer spreaders, injection guns, and
				back pack dispensers.
This classification excludes chemical spraying of roadway
				median strips by nonmunicipal employees adjacent to state, city or town
				roadways which is to be reported separately in classification 0101; chemical
				spraying done in connection with forest roads or reforestation projects which
				is to be reported in the applicable forestry classification; pest and termite
				control which is to be reported separately in classification 6602; chemical
				spraying and fumigating by employees of cities, counties, state agencies, or
				other municipalities which is to be reported in the classification applicable
				to the type of municipality performing the work; chemical spraying of
				agricultural farms or orchards which
may
be reported
				separately in classification 4808 or in the agricultural classification
				applicable to the employer's operation; and crop dusting by aircraft which is
				to be reported separately in classification 6903.
0308-01 Lawn care maintenance
Applies to contractors engaged in maintenance of established
				lawns and gardens. Work contemplated by this classification includes, but is
				not limited to, mowing and thatching lawns, edging, weeding flower beds,
				raking, rototilling gardens, application of fertilizers, and spraying and
				trimming of shrubs. Also included is minor landscape renovation and/or
				restoration activities incidental to, and performed as part of, the lawn care
				maintenance contract for an existing lawn or landscape such as the removal and
				replacement of plants, turf repair or reseeding of grass, and the spreading of
				decorative rock, topsoil, or bark. This classification includes replacement of
				sprinkler heads and cleaning of lawn type sprinkler systems only when performed
				in connection with and incidental to the lawn care maintenance contract.
				Contractors who provide snow blowing and snow removal services using hand-held
				or push-propelled equipment are included in this classification. Equipment used
				by contractors subject to this classification includes, but is not limited to,
				riding or power lawn mowers, power sweepers, edgers, thatchers, weed eaters,
				grass blowers, fertilizer spreaders, sprayers, gas or electric power tools, and
				hand tools.
This classification excludes new landscape construction which
				is to be reported separately in classification 0301; tree care and pruning
				services which are to be reported separately in classification 0106; grading,
				clearing, or contouring of land which is to be reported separately in
				classification 0101; installation, service or repair of lawn type sprinkler
				systems which is to be reported separately in classification 0301; the
				installation, service or repair of above or below ground agricultural
				irrigation systems which is to be reported separately in classification 0301;
				the installation or on-site maintenance of roofing materials composed of
				impermeable barriers, sod, soil, and plants, sometimes termed landscape
				roofing, living roofing, garden roofing, green/environmentally beneficial
				roofing, brown/biodiverse roofing, or vegetative roofing, which is to be
				reported in classification 0507; any installation or maintenance of a landscape
				roofing irrigation system, which is reported in classification 0507.
Special notes
:
Classifications
				0308 and 0301 may be assigned to the same business provided that the conditions
				of the general reporting rule covering the operation of a secondary business
				have been met.
Care should be exercised in the assignment of this
				classification when tree services are included. Tree care service contracts
				generally call for the radical topping, pruning or cutting of tree limbs to
				remove or eliminate a hazard to buildings, property, or power lines. Tree
				trimming as part of this classification is only for the purpose of shaping and
				maintaining healthy trees and to control size for the visual relationship to
				other landscape material.
Special notes :
Classifications 0308 and 0301
				  may be assigned to the same business provided that the conditions of the
				  general reporting rule covering the operation of a secondary business have been
				  met.
Care should be exercised in the assignment of this
				  classification when tree services are included. Tree care service contracts
				  generally call for the radical topping, pruning or cutting of tree limbs to
				  remove or eliminate a hazard to buildings, property, or power lines. Tree
				  trimming as part of this classification is only for the purpose of shaping and
				  maintaining healthy trees and to control size for the visual relationship to
				  other landscape material.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.16.035,
				  51.16.100,
				  51.04.020(1).
				  09-16-110, § 296-17A-0308, filed 8/4/09, effective 10/1/09. 07-01-014,
				  recodified as § 296-17A-0308, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory
				  Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.16.035. 98-18-042, § 296-17-51301,
				  filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 96-12-039, § 296-17-51301, filed
				  5/31/96, effective 7/1/96.