Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-3304 - Classification 3304

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
3304-00 Fish processors, packers and repackagers -
				Wholesale or combined wholesale/retail
Applies to establishments engaged in processing, packaging, and
				repackaging fish such as salmon, cod, whitefish, halibut, tuna, and/or
				shellfish when conducted by a wholesale or combined wholesale/retail operation.
				Typically, fish will arrive at a port via a commercial fishing vessel. Before
				the load of fish is accepted the wholesaler will inspect the commercial fishing
				vessel's records to ensure that the fish were caught, handled and stored in
				accordance with all applicable laws. The fish is then unloaded, identified,
				inspected for quality, weighed and stored in a refrigerated area or a freezer
				to await further disposition. Fish are processed, packed and repackaged as
				requested by the customers. Processing may include, but is not limited to,
				cutting, filleting, cooking, and/or canning. The fish may be sold to fish and
				meat markets, supermarkets, grocery stores, restaurants, or other wholesale
				dealers.
This classification excludes establishments engaged in the cold
				storage or locker operations of products owned by others which are to be
				reported separately in classifications 4401 or 4404 as applicable;
				establishments engaged in the raising, harvesting and subsequent processing and
				packing of shellfish which are to be reported separately in the appropriate
				classifications; and establishments engaged exclusively in retail fish
				activities, or the packaging of whole minnow, herring, or anchovy (not
				processed), which are to be reported separately in classification 3303.
3304-01 Meat and/or poultry dealers - Wholesale or
				combined wholesale/retail
Applies to establishments engaged in the wholesale or combined
				wholesale/retail distribution of fresh, frozen, cured, or smoked meat or
				poultry. Wholesale dealers generally purchase meat (whole, half, or quarter
				carcasses) from slaughterhouses, and poultry from poultry processing plants.
				The meat or poultry is cut into steaks, chops, roasts, fillets or poultry
				parts, for sale to commercial or institutional customers such as restaurants,
				hotels, grocery stores, meat and poultry markets, hospitals, and prisons.
				Wholesale dealers typically do not have display cases for the meat or poultry
				and receive orders by telephone or by mail. This classification includes the
				processing and butchering of poultry.
This classification excludes meat products manufacturing,
				canning or dehydrating, and packing house or slaughterhouse operations, which
				are to be reported separately in classification 4301; custom meat cutting
				operations, including farm kill, which are to be reported separately in
				classification 4302; cold storage or locker operations which are to be reported
				separately in classifications 4401 or 4404 as applicable, when conducted as a
				separate and distinct business; establishments engaged in processing,
				packaging, and repackaging fish which are to be reported separately in
				classification 3304-00; and retail meat, fish and poultry dealers who are to be
				reported separately in classification 3303.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  51.16.035,
				  51.16.100, 2008 c 70, and
				  Title
				  51 RCW. 08-15-132, §
				  296-17A-3304, filed 7/22/08, effective 10/1/08. 07-01-014, recodified as §
				  296-17A-3304, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  51.16.035. 99-18-068, § 296-17-57603,
				  filed 8/31/99, effective 10/1/99; 98-18-042, § 296-17-57603, filed
				  8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 96-12-039, § 296-17-57603, filed 5/31/96,
				  effective 7/1/96. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.04.020(1) and
				  51.16.035. 89-24-051 (Order
				  89-22), § 296-17-57603, filed 12/1/89, effective
				  1/1/90.