Class 8380
Applies to employers operating service stations and gasoline stations that perform service or repair work on automobiles, vans, trucks, and motorcycles. The classification includes minor repair and service work such as engine tune-ups; simple electrical lighting; starter and generator repairs; sales, installation, and service of storage batteries; tire mounting, balancing, and alignments; lubrications; oil changes; gasoline dispensing; car washing; glass installation; undercoating; and work on engines, transmissions, radiators, and ignition systems.
Code 8380 includes major mechanical repair work such as engine or transmission overhauls, valve work, extensive or complex ignition and electrical systems repair, etc.
Specialist shops such as those performing installation, service or repair of brakes, mufflers and air conditioners in automobiles, vans and light trucks, as well as new car clean-up and detail shops are included in Code 8380.
Racecar drivers are assigned to Code 9180. Racecar teams or crews that repair or service race cars at or away from racetracks are assigned to Code 8380.
Code 8380 also applies to employers that operate new and/or used automobile, van, truck, motorcycle, or golf cart sales or service agencies. These employers will usually operate repair shops and replacement parts departments. As this classification includes drivers, employees who drive vehicles purchased from factories to their employer’s agencies are classified to Code 8380. Employees (usually referred to as service writers) who greet customers for the purpose of discussing problems associated with the customer’s vehicle are additionally classified to Code 8380. These service writers will often conduct a cursory inspection of the customer’s vehicle and provide an estimate for the anticipated repair work. These employees may also enter the shop area to determine the status of repair work on a customer’s vehicle.
Automobile salespersons who exclusively sell or lease vehicles are classified to Code 8748, a Standard Exception classification.
Diesel engine service franchises where the majority of work is performed on diesel engines for trucks, but not power equipment such as Caterpillars, graders, power shovels or cranes, are additionally assigned to Code 8380.
Boat and outboard engine sales and service agencies performing marine engine repair at locations inland and not in conjunction with boat yards, boat docks, or marinas are assigned to Code 8380, which covers all repair and parts department employees. Their salespersons are assigned to Code 8748. Employers that exclusively repair outboard engines are assigned to Code 3632.
Code 8380 applies to all operations of a retail rubber tire dealer including inside sales personnel, warehouse operations, installation, adjustment or aligning tires, etc. Refer to Code 8018 for wholesale rubber tire dealers that do no installation. Rubber tire recapping and retreading are also included in Code 8380 as such operations have been considered more analogous to the operations of a rubber tire dealer than that of a tire manufacturer, based on the premise that the processes involved in rubber tire manufacturing are much more extensive than recapping or retreading.
Code 8380 includes all types of car wash facilities, whether the automobile is washed, waxed and polished by attendants, coin-operated self-service units or remote-controlled fully automatic units. Cashiers employed by these businesses are included in Code 8380. In addition to applying to car wash facilities at fixed locations, mobile car washes that use pressure cleaning equipment, commonly referred to as vehicle power washing, are also assigned to Code 8380; such operations are not assigned to Code 9014. Refer to Code 9014 and Code 5213 for risks engaged in the power wash cleaning of building exteriors.
Automobile window tinting performed by those risks engaged in automobile sales, service or repair operations or gasoline stations is considered an incidental operation assigned to Code 8380. When performed by specialists, automobile window tinting is assigned, by analogy, to Code 9505.
Garages operated by political entities such as municipalities for repair of their owned vehicles are not contemplated within Code 8380. Assign such garage operations to the appropriate governing classification of the department maintaining its own vehicles (e.g., municipal school bus garage—assign Code 8385—Bus Co.—Garage Employees, etc.).
Code 8380 is also assigned to businesses specializing in the installation of glass in automobiles. Refer to Codes 4130 and/or 5462 for a glass merchant or glazier dealing principally in the sales or installation of nonautomotive types of glass.
Refer to Code 8380 for all other employees of a mobile home dealer who do not qualify for Codes 8810 or 8748. Installation or repair of mobile homes by the dealer or specialist contractors is also assigned to 8380.
Employees of oil and gasoline distributing companies performing maintenance, adjustment, repair, and cleaning of air compressors, gasoline pumps and other mechanical equipment at gasoline or oil supply stations owned by such companies but leased to others for operating, are also assigned to Code 8380. However, such operations, when performed by an independent specialist contractor who repairs, adjusts, and cleans gasoline pumps, are assigned to Code 3724.
Refer to Codes 8381 and 8006 for retail self-service gasoline stations operated in conjunction with enterprises such as but not limited to convenience or grocery stores and/or restaurants.
Additional operations included in Code 8380 are commercial automobile inspection stations, garages operated by political entities such as municipalities for repair of their owned vehicles, and businesses that lease office-type trailers usually found at construction sites.
Code 8380 does not contemplate specialty repair shops whose operations are contemplated by a specialty classification. Examples of specialty classifications include but are not limited to Codes 3808 and 8393 for specialists principally engaged in chassis or body repair or service.
Code 8380 includes parts department employees engaged in over-the-counter sales even if these employees are physically segregated and there is no interchange of labor—see MA Manual Rule IV-3-d.
In the event a risk has both automobile service operations, as found in general repair garages or gasoline service stations, and automobile parts and accessory store operations, assign classification in accordance with MA Manual Rule IV-D-4. Refer to Codes 8046 for risks engaged in the retail sales of automobile accessories or parts, and Code 8010 for risks engaged in the wholesale sales of automobile parts and accessories.
Refer to Code 7219 for risks whose principal business is the repossession of vehicles.
Refer to Code 8006 for convenience stores that sell a variety of grocery-type items as well as gasoline and for which the receipts from gasoline constitute less than 90% of total receipts (receipts exclude revenue from sales of lottery tickets). A risk engaged in any operations listed above involving automobile service, maintenance, sales or parking operations is to be classified to the appropriate automobile service classification.
Towing in connection with automobile mechanical services and or roadside assistance is assigned to Code 8380 with the following exception: When the employer conducts towing, automobile mechanical services and or roadside assistance, assign Code 7219 to all operations when towing constitutes 50% or more of gross receipts. For employers with multiple locations, the 7219 / 8380 test is applied separately to each location. Code 7225 is N/A MA.
The operation of impound lots by towing companies is also subject to Code 7219. Therefore, all income from the impound operations is considered to be towing revenue.
Class 8380
Includes incidental greasing, polishing and servicing. Codes 8380 and 8392 automobile storage garage shall not be assigned to the same risk unless the operations described by these classifications are conducted as separate and distinct businesses.
Automobile salespersons to be separately rated as Code 8748.
Includes parts department employees. Automobile salespersons to be separately rated as Code 8748. Codes 8380 and 8392 automobile storage garage shall not be assigned to the same risk unless the operations described by these classifications are conducted as separate and distinct businesses
Includes retail diesel stations. Codes 8380 and 8392 automobile storage garage shall not be assigned to the same risk unless the operations described by these classifications are conducted as separate and distinct businesses.
Includes repairing, vulcanizing, the adjustment of tires to vehicles away from the premises of insured. Codes 8380 and 8392 automobile storage garage shall not be assigned to the same risk unless the operations described by these classifications are conducted as separate and distinct businesses.