This classification applies to heat treating or annealing of metal parts to produce suitable hardness, toughness, ductility or strength, and to brazing metal parts, on a fee basis. Heat treating or brazing operations performed in connection with the employer's own manufacturing operations shall be assigned to the applicable manufacturing classification.
Welding and hardfacing (welding to build up a hard metal surface) operations performed on a fee basis shall be classified as 3365, Welding or Cutting.
| Shown below is the previously published phraseology and footnote | Effective Date |
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Phraseology: This classification shall not be used for division of payroll in connection with any other classification (other than the Standard Exceptions or General Exclusions) unless the operations described by Classification 3146(2) constitute a separate and distinct enterprise having no connection with the operations covered by any other applicable classification. | 1/1/2014 |
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