Workers Compensation Class Code
1438 - Smelting, Sintering, or Refining - Metals - Not Iron or Lead NOC & Drivers

The description for the NCCI Workers Compensation Class Code 1438 - Smelting, Sintering, or Refining - Metals - Not Iron or Lead NOC & Drivers is:

Extraction of non-ferrous metal from ore or ore concentrates. Includes maintenance and repair of furnaces or operations incidental to storage or handling of materials or product. Includes the mfg. of artificial abrasives, carbon, or graphite..

The related GL Class Code(s) for NCCI Workers Compensation Class Code 1438 - Smelting, Sintering, or Refining - Metals - Not Iron or Lead NOC & Drivers is:

The related SIC Code(s) for NCCI Workers Compensation Class Code 1438 - Smelting, Sintering, or Refining - Metals - Not Iron or Lead NOC & Drivers is:

Description for 2899 Chemicals and Chemical Preparations, Not Elsewhere Classified

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing miscellaneous chemical preparations, not elsewhere classified, such as fatty acids, essential oils, gelatin (except vegetable), sizes, bluing, laundry sours, writing and stamp pad ink, industrial compounds, such as boiler and heat insulating compounds, metal, oil, and water-treating compounds, waterproofing compounds, and chemical supplies for foundries. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing vegetable gelatin (agar-agar) are classified in Industry 2833; those manufacturing dessert preparations based on gelatin are classified in Industry 2099; those manufacturing printing ink are classified in Industry 2893; and those manufacturing drawing ink are classified in Industry 3952.

• Acid resist for etching
• Acid, battery
• Anise oil
• Antifreeze compounds, except industrial alcohol
• Bay oil
• Binders (chemical foundry supplies)
• Bluing
• Boiler compounds, antiscaling
• Bombs, flashlight
• Caps, for toy pistols
• Carbon removing solvents
• Chemical cotton (processed cotton linters)
• Chemical supplies for foundries
• Citronella oil
• Concrete curing compounds (blends of pigments, waxes, and resins)
• Concrete hardening compounds
• Core oil and binders
• Core wash
• Core was
• Correction fluid
• Corrosion preventive lubricant, synthetic base: for jet engines
• Deicing fluid
• Desalter kits, sea water
• Dextrine sizes
• Drilling mud
• Dyes, household
• Essential oils
• Ethylene glycol antifreeze preparations
• Eucalyptus oil
• Esothermics for metal industries
• Facings (chemical foundry supplies)
• Fatty acids: margaric, oleic, and stearic
• Fire extinguisher charges
• Fire retardant chemical preparations
• Fireworks
• Flares
• Fluidifier (retarder) for concrete
• Fluorescent inspection oil
• Fluxes: brazing, soldering, galvanizing, and welding
• Foam charge mixtures
• Food contamination testing and screening kits
• Foundry supplies, chemical preparations
• Frit
• Fuel tank and engine cleaning chemicals, automotive and aircraft
• Fusees: highway, marine, and railroad
• Gelatin capsules, empty
• Gelatin: edible, technical, photographic, and pharmaceutical
• Glue size
• Grapefruit oil
• Grouting material (concrete mending compound)
• Gum sizes
• Gun slushing compounds
• Heat insulating compounds
• Heat treating salts
• Hydrofluoric acid compound, for etching and polishing glass
• Igniter grains, boron potassium nitrate
• Incense
• Industrial sizes
• Insulating compounds
• Jet fuel igniters
• Laundry sours
• Lemon oil
• Lighter fluid
• Magnetic inspection oil and powder
• Margaric acid
• Metal drawing compound lubricants
• Metal treating compounds
• Military pyrotechnics
• Napalm
• Oil treating compounds
• Oleic acid (red oil)
• Orange oil
• Orris oil
• Ossein
• Oxidizers, inorganic
• Packers' salt
• Parting compounds (chemical foundry supplies)
• Patching plaster, household
• Penetrants, inspection
• Peppermint oil
• Plating compounds
• Pyrotechnic ammunition: flares, signals, flashlight bombs, and rockets
• Railroad torpedoes
• Red oil (oleic acid)
• Rifle bore cleaning compounds
• Rosin sizes
• Rubber processing preparations
• Rust resisting compounds
• Salt
• Signal flares, marine
• Sizes: animal, vegetable, and synthetic plastics materials
• Sodium chloride, refined
• Soil testing kits
• Spearmint oil
• Spirit duplicating fluid
• Stearic acid
• Stencil correction compounds
• Tints and dyes, household
• Torches (fireworks)
• Vegetable oils, vulcanized or sulfurized
• Water treating compounds
• Water, distilled
• Waterproofing compounds
• Wintergreen oil
• Wood, plastic
• Writing ink and fluids

Description for 3339 Primary Smelting and Refining of Nonferrous Metals, Except Copper and Aluminum

Establishments primarily engaged in smelting and refining nonferrous metals, except copper and aluminum. Establishments primarily engaged in rolling, drawing, and extruding these nonferrous primary metals are classified in Industry 3356, and the production of bullion at the site of the mine is classified in Division B, Mining.

• Antifriction bearing metals, lead-base: primary
• Antimony refining, primary
• Babbitt metal, primary
• Beryllium metal
• Bismuth refining, primary
• Blocks, zinc, primary
• Cadmium refining, primary
• Chromium refining, primary
• Cobalt refining, primary
• Columbium refining, primary
• Germanium refining, primary
• Gold refining, primary
• Ingots, primary: nonferrous metals, except copper and aluminum
• Iridium refining, primary
• Lead pigs, blocks, ingots, and refinery shapes: primary
• Lead smelting and refining, primary
• Magnesium refining, primary
• Nickel refining, primary
• Nonferrous refining, primary: except copper and aluminum
• Nonferrous smelting, primary: except copper and aluminum
• Pigs, primary: nonferrous metals, except copper and aluminum
• Platinum-group metals refining, primary
• Precious metal refining, primary
• Primary refining of nonferrous metal: except copper and aluminum
• Primary smelting of nonferrous metal: except copper and aluminum
• Refining of nonferrous metal, primary: except copper and aluminum
• Rhenium refining, primary
• Selenium refining, primary
• Silicon refining, primary (over 99 percent pure)
• Silicon, epitaxial (silicon alloy)
• Silicon, pure
• Silver refining, primary
• Slabs, primary: nonferrous metals, except copper and aluminum
• Smelting of nonferrous metal, primary: except copper and aluminum
• Spelter (zinc), primary
• Tantalum refining
• Tellurium refining, primary
• Tin base alloys, primary
• Tin refining, primary
• Titanium metal sponge and granules
• Zinc dust, primary
• Zirconium metal sponge and granules

Description for 3312 Steel Works, Blast Furnaces (Including Coke Ovens), and Rolling Mills

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing hot metal, pig iron, and silvery pig iron from iron ore and iron and steel scrap; converting pig iron, scrap iron, and scrap steel into steel; and in hot-rolling iron and steel into basic shapes, such as plates, sheets, strips, rods, bars, and tubing. Merchant blast furnaces and by-product or beehive coke ovens are also included in this industry. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ferro and nonferrous additive alloys by electrometallurgical processes are classified in Industry 3313.

• Armor plate, made in steel works or rolling mills
• Axles, rolled or forged: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Bars, iron: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Bars, steel made in steel works or hotrolling mills
• Beehive coke oven products
• Billets, steel
• Blackplate
• Blast furnace products
• Blooms
• Car wheels, rolled
• Chemical recovery coke oven products
• Coal gas, derived from chemical recovery coke ovens
• Coal tar crudes, derived from chemical recovery coke ovens
• Coke, produced in beehive ovens
• Coke, produced in chemical recovery coke ovens
• Distillates, derived from chemical recovery coke ovens
• Fence posts, iron and steel: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Flats, iron and steel: made in steel works or hot-rolling mills
• Forgings, iron and steel made in steel works or rolling mills
• Frogs, iron and steel: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Galvanized hoops, pipes, plates, sheets, and strips iron and steel
• Gun forgings, iron and steel: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Hoops, galvanized iron and steel
• Hoops, iron and steel made in steel works or hot-rolling mills
• Hot-rolled iron and steel products
• Ingots, steel
• Iron sinter, made in steel mills
• Iron, pig
• Nut rods, iron and steel made in steel works or rolling mills
• Pipe, iron and steel made in steel works or rolling mills
• Plates, made in steel works or rolling mills
• Rail joints and fastenings, made in steel works or rolling mills
• Railroad crossings, iron and steel: made in steel works or rollingmills
• Rails, iron and steel
• Rails rerolled or renewed
• Rods iron and steel made in steel works or rolling mills
• Sheet pilings, plain: iron and steel-made in steel works or rollingmills
• Sheets, steel: made in steel works or hot-rolling mills
• Shell slugs, steel made in steel works or rolling mills
• Skelp, iron and steel
• Slabs, steel
• Spike rods, made in steel works or rolling mills
• Sponge iron
• Stainless steel
• Steel works producing bars, rods, plates, sheets, structural shapes,
• Strips, galvanized iron and steel: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Strips, iron and steel: made in steel works or hot-rolling mills
• Structural shapes, iron and steel
• Tar, derived from chemical recovery coke ovens
• Terneplate
• Ternes, iron and steel: long or short
• Tie plates, iron and steel
• Tin-free steel
• Tinplate
• Tool steel
• Tube rounds
• Tubes, iron and steel: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Tubing, seamless: steel
• Well casings, iron and steel: made in steel works or rolling mills
• Wheels, car and locomotive: iron and steel-mitse
• Wire products, iron and steel: made steel works or rolling mills
• Wrought pipe and tubing, made in steel works or rolling mills

Description for 2819 Industrial Inorganic Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in mining, milling, or otherwise preparing natural potassium, sodium, or boron compounds (other than common salt) are classified in Industry 1474. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing household bleaches are classified in Industry 2842; those manufacturing phosphoric acid are classified in Industry 2874; and those manufacturing nitric acid, anhydrous ammonia, and other nitrogenous fertilizer materials are classified in Industry 2873.

• Activated carbon and charcoal
• Alkali metals
• Alumina
• Aluminum chloride
• Aluminum compounds
• Aluminum hydroxide (alumina trihydrate)
• Aluminum oxide
• Aluminum sulfate
• Alums
• Ammonia alum
• Ammonium chloride, hydroxide, and molybdate
• Ammonium compounds, except for fertilizer
• Ammonium perchlorate
• Ammonium thiosulfate
• Barium compounds
• Bauxite, refined
• Beryllium oxide
• Bleach (calcium hypochlorite), industrial
• Bleach (sodium hypochlorite), industrial
• Bleaches, industrial
• Bleaching powder, industrial
• Borax (sodium tetraborate)
• Boric acid
• Boron compounds, not produced at mines
• Borosilicate
• Brine
• Bromine, elemental
• Calcium carbide, chloride, and hypochlorite
• Calcium compounds, inorganic
• Calcium metal
• Carbide
• Catalysts, chemical
• Cerium salts
• Cesium metal
• Charcoal, activated
• Chlorosulfonic acid
• Chromates and bichromates
• Chromic acid
• Chromium compounds, inorganic
• Chromium salts
• Cobalt 60 (radioactive)
• Cobalt chloride
• Cobalt sulfate
• Copper chloride
• Copper iodide and oxide
• Copper sulfate
• Cyanides
• Desiccants, activated: silica gel
• Dichromates
• Ferric chloride
• Ferric oxides, except pigments
• Ferrocyanides
• Fissionable material production
• Fluorine, elemental
• Fuel propellants, solid: inorganic
• Fuels, high energy: inorganic
• Glauber' s salt
• Heavy water
• High purity grade chemicals, inorganic: refined from technical grades
• Hydrated alumina silicate powder
• Hydrazine
• Hydrochloric acid
• Hydrocyanic acid
• Hydrofluoric acid
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Hydrogen sulfide
• Hydrosulfites
• Hypophosphites
• Indium chloride
• Inorganic acids, except nitric or phosphoric
• Iodides
• Iodine elemental
• Iodine, resublimed
• Iron sulphate
• Isotopes, radioactive
• Laboratory chemicals, inorganic
• Lead oxides, other than pigments
• Lead silicate
• Lime bleaching compounds
• Lithium compounds
• Lithium metal
• Luminous compounds, radium
• Magnesium carbonate
• Magnesium chloride
• Magnesium compounds, inorganic
• Manganese dioxide powder, synthetic
• Mercury chlorides (calomel, corrosive sublimate), except U.S.P.
• Mercury compounds, inorganic
• Mercury oxides
• Mercury, redistilled
• Metals, liquid
• Mixed acid
• Muriate of potash, not produced at mines
• Nickel ammonium sulfate
• Nickel carbonate
• Nickel compounds, inorganic
• Nickel sulfate
• Nuclear cores, inorganic
• Nuclear fuel reactor cores, inorganic
• Nuclear fuel scrap reprocessing
• Oleum (fuming sulfuric acid)
• Oxidation catalyst made from porcelain
• Perchloric acid
• Peroxides, inorganic
• Phosphates, except defluorinated and ammoniated
• Phosphorus and phosphorus oxychloride
• Potash alum
• Potassium aluminum sulfate
• Potassium bichromate and chromate
• Potassium bromide
• Potassium chlorate
• Potassium chloride
• Potassium compounds, inorganic: except potassium hydroxide and
• Potassium cyanide
• Potassium hypochlorate
• Potassium iodide
• Potassium metal
• Potassium nitrate and sulfate
• Potassium permanganate
• Propellants for missiles, solid: inorganic
• Radium chloride
• Radium luminous compounds
• Rare earth metal salts
• Reagent grade chemicals, inorganic: refined from technical grades
• Rubidium metal
• Salt cake (sodium sulfate)
• Salts of rare earth metals
• Scandium
• Silica gel
• Silica, amorphous
• Silico-fluorides
• Silver bromide, chloride, and nitrate
• Silver compounds, inorganic
• Soda alum
• Sodium aluminate
• Sodium aluminum sulfate
• Sodium antimoniate
• Sodium arsenite, technical
• Sodium bichromate and chromate
• Sodium borates
• Sodium borohydride
• Sodium bromide, not produced at mines
• Sodium chlorate
• Sodium compounds, inorganic
• Sodium cyanide
• Sodium hydrosulfite
• Sodium molybdate
• Sodium perborate
• Sodium peroxide
• Sodium phosphate
• Sodium polyphosphate
• Sodium silicate
• Sodium silicofluoride
• Sodium stannate
• Sodium sulfate-bulk or tablets
• Sodium tetraborate not produced at mines
• Sodium thiosulfate
• Sodium tungstate
• Sodium uranate
• Sodium, metallic
• Stannic and stannous chloride
• Strontium carbonate precipitated and oxide
• Strontium nitrate
• Sublimate corrosive
• Sulfate of potash and potash magnesia, not produced at mines
• Sulfides and sulfites
• Sulfocyanides
• Sulfur chloride
• Sulfur dioxide
• Sulfur hexafluoride gas
• Sulfur recovered or refined including from sour natural gas
• Sulfuric acid
• Tanning agents synthetic inorganic
• Thiocyanates, inorganic
• Tin chloride
• Tin compounds, inorganic
• Tin oxide
• Tin salts
• Tungsten carbide powder except abrasives or by metallurgical process
• Uranium slug, radioactive
• Water glass
• Zinc chloride

Description for 3334 Primary Production of Aluminum

Establishments primarily engaged in producing aluminum from alumina and in refining aluminum by any process. Establishments primarily engaged in rolling, drawing, or extruding aluminum are classified in Industry Group 335.

• Aluminum ingots and primary production shapes, from bauxite or
• Extrusion ingot, aluminum: primary
• Pigs, aluminum
• Slabs, aluminum: primary

Description for 3331 Primary Smelting and Refining of Copper

Establishments primarily engaged in smelting copper from the ore, and in refining copper by electrolytic or other processes. Establishments primarily engaged in rolling, drawing, or extruding copper are classified in Industry 3351.

• Bars, refinery: primary copper
• Blister copper
• Blocks, copper
• Copper ingots and refinery bars, primary
• Copper smelting and refining, primary
• Pigs, copper
• Primary smelting and refining of copper
• Slabs, copper: primary

Description for 3341 Secondary Smelting and Refining of Nonferrous Metals

Establishments primarily engaged in recovering nonferrous metals and alloys from new and used scrap and dross or in producing alloys from purchased refined metals. This industry includes establishments engaged in both the recovery and alloying of precious metals. Plants engaged in the recovery of tin through secondary smelting and refining, as well as by chemical processes, are included in this industry. Establishments primarily engaged in assembling, sorting, and breaking up scrap metal, without smelting and refining, are classified in Wholesale Trade, Industry 5093.

• Aluminum extrusion ingot, secondary
• Aluminum smelting and refining, secondary
• Antimonial lead refining, secondary
• Babbitt metal smelting and refining, secondary
• Brass smelting and refining, secondary
• Bronze smelting and refining, secondary
• Copper smelting and refining, secondary
• Detinning of cans
• Detinning of scrap
• Germanium refining, secondary
• Gold smelting and refining, secondary
• Ingots, nonferrous: smelting and refining-secondary
• Iridium smelting and refining, secondary
• Lead smelting and refining, secondary
• Magnesium smelting and refining, secondary
• Nickel smelting and refining, secondary
• Nonferrous metal smelting and refining, secondary
• Platinum-group metals smelting and refining, secondary
• Precious metal smelting and refining, secondary
• Recovering and refining of nonferrous metals
• Recovery of silver from used photographic film
• Secondary refining and smelting of nonferrous metals
• Selenium refining, secondary
• Silver smelting and refining, secondary
• Solder (base metal), pig and ingot secondary
• Tin smelting and refining, secondary
• Zinc dust, reclaimed
• Zinc smelting and refining, secondary

Description for 3313 Electrometallurgical Products, Except Steel

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ferro and nonferrous metal additive alloys by electrometallurgical or metallothermic processes, including high percentage ferroalloys and high percentage nonferrous additive alloys. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electrometallurgical steel are classified in Industry 3312.

• Additive alloys, except copper
• Ferroalloys (including high percentage)
• Ferrochromium
• Ferromanganese
• Ferromolybdenum
• Ferrophosphorus
• Ferrosilicon
• Ferrotitanium
• Ferrotungsten
• Ferrovanadium
• High percentage ferroalloys
• Manganese metal
• Molybdenum silicon
• Nonferrous additive alloys, high percentage: except copper
• Spiegeleisen
• Tungsten carbide powder by metallurgical process

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