Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-0219 - Classification 0219

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
0219-00 Construction specialty services,
				N.O.C.
Applies to contractors engaged in the installation or removal
				of lighting for highways, streets, roadways, parking lots, and light standards.
				It also applies to the installation, repair, or removal of signs, guardrails,
				roadside reflectors, lane buttons or turtles, or lane markers not covered by
				another classification (N.O.C.). Usually, these activities occur as finishing
				touches after new or existing roadways are paved or surfaced. Roadway lighting
				includes traffic signal lights, and halogen or mercury vapor lights mounted to
				metal standards erected alongside the roadway. Signs (such as speed limit, road
				condition, city and town mile destination) are mounted on overpasses or on wood
				or metal poles erected alongside the roadway. Guardrails include metal barriers
				mounted on wood or metal poles driven into the roadside shoulder. Lane markers,
				lane buttons or turtles consist of small reflectors, or chips of plastic or
				concrete attached to the road with an adhesive bonding material. This
				classification includes the related hook-up of power to the light
				standard.
This classification excludes the installation of power lines
				that feed into power poles which is to be reported separately in the applicable
				construction classification for the work being performed.
Special note
:
This classification
				excludes exterior sign erection, repair, or removal not in connection with
				displaying highway, street, or roadway information or conditions even though
				such signs may be erected or placed alongside roadways (such as advertisement
				bill boards, business, or personal property signs) which is to be reported
				separately in classification 0403.
0219-01 Construction specialty services
Applies to contractors engaged in specialty services such as
				the painting or striping of highways, streets, roadways, or parking lots not
				covered by another classification (N.O.C.). This classification includes
				painting, striping, numbering, or lettering of highways, streets, roadways,
				parking lots, parking garages, airport runways, taxi ways, curbs, roadway
				dividers, median strips, and special traffic areas such as fire, bus, handicap,
				and no parking zones. The paint or other material used for these markings is
				usually applied to the surface using a mechanical device, either self-propelled
				or towed by a truck or other motor vehicle. In some instances, the paint will
				be applied manually with brush or roller which is included in this
				classification. This classification includes the application of asphalt
				sealants to roadways or parking lots; mechanically placed block or prefab
				panels next to a roadway for noise barrier, median, or retaining walls; and
				concrete barrier installation, in connection with road construction, by a
				concrete barrier rental business or by a flagging contractor who also supplies
				the concrete barriers. This includes the flaggers who are necessary during the
				installation of the barriers as well as any flaggers the company supplies to
				the road construction project itself.
This classification excludes the interior painting of buildings
				which is to be reported separately in classification 0521, the exterior
				painting of buildings or structures which is to be reported separately in
				classification 0504; application of asphalt sealant to driveways which is to be
				reported separately in classification 0504-06; the rental of the concrete
				barriers and other flagging equipment which is to be reported separately in
				classification 6409; and flaggers who are not employed by a concrete barrier
				rental business or by a flagging contractor who also supplies the concrete
				barriers which are to be reported separately in classification 7116 or 7118 as
				appropriate.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.04.020,
				  51.16.035, and
				  51.16.100. 12-11-109, §
				  296-17A-0219, filed 5/22/12, effective 7/1/12. 07-01-014, recodified as §
				  296-17A-0219, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.16.035. 99-18-068, § 296-17-50917,
				  filed 8/31/99, effective 10/1/99; 98-18-042, § 296-17-50917, filed
				  8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 96-12-039, § 296-17-50917, filed 5/31/96,
				  effective 7/1/96.