Wash. Admin. Code § 296-17A-5002
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in booming and rafting logs on water.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
* Booming by making a barrier in the water, usually with existing floating logs tied together with rope or chain to enclose other free floating logs. This type of barrier is referred to as a bundle.
* Rafting which involves using a boom boat or tugboat to push the bundles together and towing the bundles to a particular destination.
* Loading logs into or out of the water when performed by employees of the booming and rafting business.
The logs may be rafted to a port where they are loaded directly onto vessels or to a sawmill, lumber mill, or log sorting yard.
Special note: Care should be exercised prior to assignment of this classification as the workers may be subject to federal laws covered by the Jones Act or by the U.S. Longshore and Harbor Workers Act.
Wash. Admin. Code § 296-17A-5002
07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-5002, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. 98-18-042, § 296-17-660, filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-660, filed 11/27/85, effective 1/1/86; Order 73-22, § 296-17-660, filed 11/9/73, effective 1/1/74.