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national industry 238910

Site Preparation Contractors

Overview

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in site preparation activities, such as excavating and grading, demolition of buildings and other structures, and septic system installation. Earthmoving and land clearing for all types of sites (e.g., building, nonbuilding, mining) is included in this industry. Establishments primarily engaged in construction equipment rental with operator (except cranes) are also included.

The immediate parent of national industry 238910 is international industry 23891: Site Preparation Contractors

Illustrative Examples

  • Blasting, building demolition
  • Foundation digging (i.e., excavation)
  • Concrete breaking and cutting for demolition
  • Foundation drilling contractors
  • Cutting new rights of way
  • Grading construction sites
  • Demolition, building and structure
  • Line slashing or cutting (except maintenance)
  • Dewatering contractors
  • Septic system contractors
  • Dirt moving for construction
  • Trenching (except underwater)
  • Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator
  • Underground tank (except hazardous) removal
  • Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing
  • Wrecking, building or other structure contractors

2017 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Earth retention or underwater trenching--are classified in Industry 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction;
  • Crane rental with operator--are classified in Industry 238990, All Other Specialty Trade Contractors;
  • Overburden removal as an activity prior to mineral removal from quarries or open pit mines--are classified in Sector 21, Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction;
  • Drilling oil and gas field water intake wells--are classified in U.S. Industry 213111, Drilling Oil and Gas Wells;
  • Dismantling tanks in oil fields--are classified in U.S. Industry 213112, Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations;
  • Construction equipment rental without an operator--are classified in U.S. Industry 532412, Construction, Mining, and Forestry Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing;
  • Tree and brush trimming for overhead utility lines--are classified in Industry 561730, Landscaping Services; and
  • Nuclear power plant decommissioning and environmental remediation work, such as the removal of underground steel tanks for hazardous materials--are classified in Industry 562910, Remediation Services.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 238910 - Aerial or picker truck, construction, rental with operator
  2. 238910 - Backfilling, construction
  3. 238910 - Backhoe rental with operator
  4. 238910 - Blast hole drilling (except mining)
  5. 238910 - Blasting, building demolition
  6. 238910 - Blasting, construction site
  7. 238910 - Boring, for building construction
  8. 238910 - Building demolition
  9. 238910 - Bulldozer rental with operator
  10. 238910 - Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction
  11. 238910 - Cesspool construction
  12. 238910 - Concrete breaking and cutting for demolition
  13. 238910 - Construction equipment (except crane) rental with operator
  14. 238910 - Core drilling and test boring for construction
  15. 238910 - Crawler tractor rental with operator
  16. 238910 - Culvert or bridge removal
  17. 238910 - Cutting new rights of way
  18. 238910 - Demolition contractor
  19. 238910 - Demolition, building and structure
  20. 238910 - Dewatering contractors
  21. 238910 - Digging foundations
  22. 238910 - Dirt moving for construction
  23. 238910 - Dismantling engineering structures (e.g., oil storage tank)
  24. 238910 - Drainage system (e.g., cesspool, septic tank) installation
  25. 238910 - Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors
  26. 238910 - Drilled shaft (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction
  27. 238910 - Dry well construction
  28. 238910 - Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator
  29. 238910 - Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries)
  30. 238910 - Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors
  31. 238910 - Excavation contractors
  32. 238910 - Foundation digging (i.e., excavation)
  33. 238910 - Foundation drilling contractors
  34. 238910 - Grading construction sites
  35. 238910 - Grave excavation contractors
  36. 238910 - Ground thawing for construction site digging
  37. 238910 - House demolishing
  38. 238910 - House razing
  39. 238910 - Hydrodemolition (i.e., demolition with pressurized water) contractors
  40. 238910 - Land clearing
  41. 238910 - Land leveling contractors
  42. 238910 - Line slashing or cutting (except maintenance)
  43. 238910 - Machinery, construction (except cranes), rental with operator
  44. 238910 - Mine site preparation and related construction activities, construction contractors
  45. 238910 - Pile driving, building foundation
  46. 238910 - Piling (i.e., bored, cast-in-place, drilled), building foundation, contractors
  47. 238910 - Power shovel, construction, rental with operator
  48. 238910 - Power, communication and pipe line right of way clearance (except maintenance)
  49. 238910 - Removal of dams, dikes, and other heavy and civil engineering constructions
  50. 238910 - Right of way cutting (except maintenance)
  51. 238910 - Road decommissioning
  52. 238910 - Septic system contractors
  53. 238910 - Septic tank and weeping tile installation
  54. 238910 - Soil compacting
  55. 238910 - Soil test drilling
  56. 238910 - Test boring for construction
  57. 238910 - Trenching (except underwater)
  58. 238910 - Underground tank (except hazardous material) removal
  59. 238910 - Weeping tile installation
  60. 238910 - Wrecking, building or other structure

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 238910
2007 238910
2012 238910
2017 238910
2022 238910

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 1081 - Metal Mining Services
  2. 1241 - Coal Mining Services
  3. 1389 - Oil and Gas Field Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
  4. 1481 - Nonmetallic Minerals Services, Except Fuels
  5. 1629 - Heavy Construction, Not Elsewhere Classified
  6. 1711 - Plumbing, Heating and Air-Conditioning
  7. 1794 - Excavation Work
  8. 1795 - Wrecking and Demolition Work
  9. 1799 - Special Trade Contractors, Not Elsewhere Classified

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 238910, Site Preparation Contractors:

  1. asbesto lead ufi abatement radon mitigation tank remediation
  2. blasting contractor
  3. blasting op all including op performed by sub for insd
  4. blasting operation
  5. blasting rock
  6. caisson or cofferdam contractor
  7. caisson or cofferdam work foundation for bldg
  8. caisson or cofferdam work foundation for building
  9. caisson work
  10. clearing of right of way electric power telephone burglar or fire alarm line brush clearing or removal new or existing right of way
  11. coal mining service
  12. coffer dam caisson
  13. construction
  14. contractor
  15. contractor equipment crane derrick power shovel and equipment incidental thereto rented to other with operator
  16. contractor equipment crane derrick under 50 ft rented to other with operator
  17. contractor equipment earth moving equipment other than crane derrick and power shovel rented to other with operator cgl
  18. contractor equipment earth moving equipment other than crane derricksand power shovel rented to other with operator
  19. contractor equipment earth moving equipment rented to other with operator
  20. contractor equipment excl automobile rented to other with operator
  21. contractor equipment excluding automobile rented to other with operator
  22. contractor equipment excluding automobile rented to other with operator not otherwise classified
  23. contractor equipment hod or material platform hoist and equipment incidental thereto rented to other with operator
  24. contractor equipment hod or material platform hoist and equipment incidental thereto rented to other with operator cgl
  25. contractor equipment not otherwise classified excluding automobile rented to other with operator cgl
  26. contractor equipment rental
  27. contractor machinery dealer
  28. crane derrick power shovel equipment rented to other with operator
  29. crane derrick power shovel with operator equipment rented to other
  30. demolition contractor
  31. demolition wrecking not otherwise classified
  32. derrick crane power shovel equipment rented to other with operator
  33. drilling not oil or gas
  34. drilling not otherwise classified
  35. drilling other than water
  36. employment contractor temporary excavation staff de pa
  37. equipment rented to other other than 7411 7413 with operator
  38. equipment rented to other with operator not otherwise classified c e and i
  39. excavation
  40. excavation contractor
  41. excavation contractor no blasting or demolition
  42. excavation digging of hole for building foundation or other structure
  43. excavation excl blasting
  44. excavation high wage ca
  45. excavation include blasting
  46. excavation tier 4
  47. excavation work
  48. foundation preparation work
  49. grading of land
  50. grading of land and site preparation
  51. grading of land high wage ca
  52. grading of land not otherwise classified
  53. grading of land not road construction or excavation
  54. grading of land oil and gas
  55. grading of land tier 4
  56. heavy construction not otherwise classified
  57. heavy machinery and equipment rental
  58. hvac and plumbing contractor septic tank system
  59. land grading contractor
  60. land grading service
  61. land leveling grading farm land employee whose regular hourly wage equal or exceed 30 00 per hour
  62. lead asbesto ufi abatement radon mitigation tank remediation
  63. marine wrecking and dismantling
  64. marine wrecking or demolition
  65. masonry including bricklaying stonework tile marble mosaic stuccoing
  66. masonry including bricklaying stonework tile stuccoing
  67. metal mining service
  68. mining metal
  69. nonmetallic mineral service except fuel
  70. nonmetallic mineral support activity exc fuel
  71. oil and gas field service
  72. oil and gas field service not otherwise classified
  73. other specialty trade contractor
  74. pile driving
  75. pile driving building foundation only
  76. pile driving contractor
  77. pile driving sonic method
  78. plumbing heating and air conditioning
  79. power shovel crane derrick equipment rented to other with operator
  80. radon mitigation tank remediation asbesto lead ufi abatement
  81. rock excavation
  82. septic tank installation
  83. septic tank installation service and repair contractor
  84. septic tank installation service or repair
  85. septic tank installation service repair
  86. septic tank system installation service or repair
  87. septic tank system installation servicing or repair
  88. shaft sinking
  89. site preparation contractor
  90. special trade contractor not otherwise classified
  91. specialty trade contractor
  92. specialty trade contractor not otherwise classified
  93. specialty trade contractor not otherwise classified naic
  94. stonework exterior only general liability is not available
  95. street or road construction grading
  96. street or road construction rock excavation
  97. street or road construction subsurface work
  98. tank
  99. tank remediation
  100. tank remediation radon mitigation asbesto lead ufi abatement
  101. tile and stone installation interior general liability is not available
  102. tree removal for new right of way electric power telephone burglar or fire alarm line
  103. ufi abatement asbesto lead radon mitigation tank remediation
  104. underpinning contractor building or structure
  105. wrecking and demolition contractor
  106. wrecking and demolition incidental to other operation no explosive used
  107. wrecking and demolition sole operation
  108. wrecking and demolition work
  109. wrecking building or structure
  110. wrecking building or structure not marine
  111. wrecking building or structure not otherwise classified
  112. wrecking demolition not otherwise classified
  113. wrecking dismantling of prefabricated dwelling not exceeding 3 story for reerection
  114. wrecking marine
  115. wrecking marine coverage under admiralty law program i
  116. wrecking marine coverage under admiralty law program ii state act
  117. wrecking marine coverage under admiralty law program ii u act
  118. wrecking marine or structure

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