Class 5474
Code 5474 applies to painting contractors provided their work is not otherwise classified in the manual. Code 5474 includes shop operations performed by an employer that also performs exterior painting activities.
Code 5474 applies to exterior and interior painting of residential or commercial structures that are constructed of wood, concrete, stone or a combination thereof regardless of height. Commercial structures include but are not limited to houses of worship, office buildings, stores, theaters and auditoriums.
Code 5474 includes surface preparation and other work incidental to the painting process as well as the installation and dismantling of scaffolding or other equipment used to facilitate the painting and the preparation of surfaces to be painted when these operations are performed in conjunction with an employer’s painting operations at a particular job site.
Painting specialists may perform incidental finishing operations such as taping, filling and sanding of joints and nail holes on wallboards installed by others. These operations include only minor patch work or minor repair work to wallboard and wallboard joints previously installed, taped, filled, and sanded by others. Refer to Code 5445 for other than incidental operations involving wallboard installation and/or taping, filling, and sanding of wallboard joints.
Specialist contractors that perform waterproofing operations by application of the waterproofing material using a brush or a hand pressured caulking gun are assigned to Code 5474.
Code 5474 includes painting of metal structures enumerated in the footnote of this classification. It does not include the painting of any ship hulls (see Code 6874F), or any bridges (see Code 5037), or other metal structures that are over two stories in height (see Code 5037). For commercial structures, a “story” is defined as being fifteen (15) feet in height. “Structures” include metal skeleton frame or skeleton frame and metal sidings of barns; warehouses; aircraft hangars; Quonset huts; garages; lunch stands; gasoline filling stations; and analogous metal structures not over two stories in height.
Aircraft painting performed by specialist contractors is assigned to Code 5474 when the aircraft is under two stories in height and to Code 5037 when the aircraft is over two stories in height. Aircraft painting performed by aircraft manufacturers that paint aircraft as part of their aircraft manufacturing process is assigned to Code 3830.
Code 5474 applies to “brush-on” or “spray-on” methods of applying liquid tint to windows. The application of plastic film to windows in conjunction with the above operations is also classified to Code 5474. Automobile window tinting job shops are assigned, by analogy, to Code 9505. All other window tinting operations, brush-on/roll-on or plastic film are assigned to Code 5474.
Codes 5474 and 9501 include electrostatic painting. The process involves painting a surface using a “painting gun.” An electrostatic field is created between the gun and the surface, which draws the paint to the surface to be painted. If an employer operates in both shop and exterior electrostatic painting operations, assign Code 5474 to the entire operation. Code 9501 is assigned to an employer that performs exclusively in electrostatic painting in the employer’s shop.
Refer to Code 9402 for specialist contractors engaged exclusively in painting stripes on parking lots and/or traffic lines on streets or roads (see Code 5221 for the painting of parking lot stripes, and Code 5506 for the painting of traffic lines on streets or roads, when the paving contractor also performs such operations at the same job or location where paving operations are conducted).
Code 5474 also applies to insureds engaged exclusively in paperhanging operations.
Class 5474
Includes the painting of metal storage tanks, fire escapes, staircases, balconies, shutters, window frames or sash. Painting ship hulls, metal structures over two stories in height or bridges to be separately rated.