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Abrasive product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing abrasive grinding wheels of natural or synthetic materials, abrasive-coated products, and other abrasive products. Illustrative Examples: Aluminum oxide (fused) abrasives manufacturing, Buffing and polishing wheels, abrasive and nonabrasive, manufacturing, Diamond dressing wheels manufacturing, Sandpaper manufacturing, Silicon carbide abrasives manufacturing, Whetstones manufacturing |
Accommodation | Accommodation and Food Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging in facilities known as hotels, motor hotels, resort hotels, and motels. The establishments in this industry may offer food and beverage services, recreational services, conference rooms, convention services, laundry services, parking, and other services; establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging in hotel facilities with a casino on the premises. The casino on premises includes table wagering games and may include other gambling activities, such as slot machines and sports betting. These establishments generally offer a range of services and amenities, such as food and beverage services, entertainment, valet parking, swimming pools, and conference and convention facilities; establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging in facilities known as bed-and-breakfast inns. These establishments provide short-term lodging in private homes or small buildings converted for this purpose. Bed-and-breakfast inns are characterized by a highly personalized service and inclusion of a full breakfast in the room rate; establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging (except hotels, motels, casino hotels, and bed-and-breakfast inns). Illustrative Examples: Guest houses, Tourist homes, Housekeeping cabins and cottages, Youth hostels; establishments primarily engaged in operating sites to accommodate campers and their equipment, including tents, tent trailers, travel trailers, and RVs (recreational vehicles). These establishments may provide access to facilities, such as washrooms, laundry rooms, recreation halls, playgrounds, stores, and snack bars; establishments primarily engaged in operating overnight recreational camps, such as children's camps, family vacation camps, hunting and fishing camps, and outdoor adventure retreats, that offer trail riding, white water rafting, hiking, and similar activities. These establishments provide accommodation facilities, such as cabins and fixed campsites, and other amenities, such as food services, recreational facilities and equipment, and organized recreational activities. Illustrative Examples: Fishing camps with accommodation facilities, Dude ranches, Vacation camps (except campgrounds, day, instructional), Hunting camps with accommodation facilities, Wilderness camps, Outdoor adventure retreats with accommodation facilities; establishments primarily engaged in operating rooming and boarding houses and similar facilities, such as fraternity houses, sorority houses, off campus dormitories, residential clubs, and workers' camps. These establishments provide temporary or longer-term accommodations, which, for the period of occupancy, may serve as a principal residence. These establishments also may provide complementary services, such as housekeeping, meals, and laundry services. Illustrative Examples: Dormitories (off campus), Sorority houses, Fraternity houses, Workers' camps, Rooming houses. |
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments of accountants that are certified to audit the accounting records of public and private organizations and to attest to compliance with generally accepted accounting practices. Offices of certified public accountants (CPAs) may provide one or more of the following accounting services: (1) auditing financial statements; (2) designing accounting systems; (3) preparing financial statements; (4) developing budgets; and (5) providing advice on matters related to accounting. These establishments may also provide related services, such as bookkeeping, tax return preparation, and payroll processing; establishments (except offices of CPAs) engaged in providing tax return preparation services without also providing accounting, bookkeeping, billing, or payroll processing services. Basic knowledge of tax law and filing requirements is required; establishments (except offices of CPAs) engaged in the following without also providing accounting, bookkeeping, or billing services: (1) collecting information on hours worked, pay rates, deductions, and other payroll-related data from their clients and (2) using that information to generate paychecks, payroll reports, and tax filings. These establishments may use data processing and tabulating techniques as part of providing their services; establishments (except offices of CPAs) engaged in providing accounting services (except tax return preparation services only or payroll services only). These establishments may also provide tax return preparation or payroll services. Accountant (except CPA) offices, bookkeeper offices, and billing offices are included in this industry. |
Adhesive manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing adhesives, glues, and caulking compounds. |
Advertising, public relations, and related services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in creating advertising campaigns and placing such advertising in periodicals, newspapers, radio and television, or other media. These establishments are organized to provide a full range of services (i.e., through in-house capabilities or subcontracting), including advice, creative services, account management, production of advertising material, media planning, and buying (i.e., placing advertising); establishments primarily engaged in designing and implementing public relations campaigns. These campaigns are designed to promote the interests and image of their clients. Establishments providing lobbying, political consulting, or public relations consulting are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in purchasing advertising time or space from media outlets and reselling it to advertising agencies or individual companies directly; establishments of independent representatives primarily engaged in selling media time or space for media owners. Illustrative Examples: Newspaper advertising representatives (i.e., independent of media owners), Radio advertising representatives (i.e., independent of media owners), Publishers' advertising representatives (i.e., independent of media owners), Television advertising representatives (i.e., independent of media owners); establishments primarily engaged in creating and designing public display advertising campaign materials, such as printed, painted, or electronic displays; and/or placing such displays on indoor or outdoor billboards and panels, or on or within transit vehicles or facilities, shopping malls, retail (in-store) displays, and other display structures or sites;establishments primarily engaged in (1) creating and designing advertising campaigns for the purpose of distributing advertising materials (e.g., coupons, flyers, samples) or specialties (e.g., keychains, magnets, pens with customized messages imprinted) by mail or other direct distribution and/or (2) preparing advertising materials or specialties for mailing or other direct distribution. These establishments may also compile, maintain, sell, and rent mailing lists; establishments primarily engaged in the direct distribution or delivery of advertisements (e.g., circulars, coupons, handbills) or samples. Establishments in this industry use methods, such as delivering advertisements or samples door-to-door, placing flyers or coupons on car windshields in parking lots, or handing out samples in retail stores; establishments primarily engaged in providing advertising services (except advertising agency services, public relations agency services, media buying agency services, media representative services, display advertising services, direct mail advertising services, advertising material distribution services, and marketing consulting services). Illustrative Examples: Advertising specialties (e.g., keychains, magnets, pens) distribution services (except direct mail), Sign lettering and painting services, Display lettering services, Store window dressing or trimming services, Mannequin decorating services, Welcoming services (i.e., advertising services), Merchandise demonstration services. |
Air and gas compressor manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing general purpose air and gas compressors, such as reciprocating compressors, centrifugal compressors, vacuum pumps (except laboratory), and nonagricultural spraying and dusting compressors and spray gun units. |
Air conditioning, refrigeration, and warm air heating equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing air-conditioning (except motor vehicle) and warm air furnace equipment and/or (2) manufacturing commercial and industrial refrigeration and freezer equipment. Illustrative Examples: Air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing, Air-conditioning compressors (except motor vehicle) manufacturing, Air-conditioning condensers and condensing units manufacturing, Dehumidifiers (except portable electric) manufacturing, Heat pumps manufacturing, Humidifying equipment (except portable) manufacturing, Refrigerated counter and display cases manufacturing, Refrigerated drinking fountains manufacturing, Snow making machinery manufacturing, Soda fountain cooling and dispensing equipment manufacturing. |
Air purification and ventilation equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing stationary air purification equipment, such as industrial dust and fume collection equipment, electrostatic precipitation equipment, warm air furnace filters, air washers, and other dust collection equipment, and/or (2) manufacturing attic fans and industrial and commercial fans and blowers, such as commercial exhaust fans and commercial ventilating fans. |
Air transportation | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: providing air transportation of passengers or passengers and freight over regular routes and on regular schedules. Establishments in this industry operate flights even if partially loaded. Scheduled air passenger carriers including commuter and helicopter carriers (except scenic and sightseeing) are included in this industry; providing air transportation of cargo without transporting passengers over regular routes and on regular schedules. Establishments in this industry operate flights even if partially loaded. Establishments primarily engaged in providing scheduled air transportation of mail on a contract basis are included in this industry; providing air transportation of passengers or passengers and cargo with no regular routes and regular schedules; providing air transportation of cargo without transporting passengers with no regular routes and regular schedules; providing air transportation with no regular routes and regular schedules (except nonscheduled chartered passenger and/or cargo air transportation). These establishments provide a variety of specialty air transportation or flying services based on individual customer needs using general purpose aircraft. Illustrative Examples: Aircraft charter services (i.e., general purpose aircraft used for a variety of specialty air and flying services), Aviation clubs providing a variety of air transportation activities to the general public. |
Aircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing aircraft engines and engine parts; (2) developing and making prototypes of aircraft engines and engine parts; (3) aircraft propulsion system conversion (i.e., major modifications to systems); and (4) aircraft propulsion systems overhaul and rebuilding (i.e., periodic restoration of aircraft propulsion system to original design specifications). |
Aircraft manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing or assembling complete aircraft; (2) developing and making aircraft prototypes; (3) aircraft conversion (i.e., major modifications to systems); and (4) complete aircraft overhaul and rebuilding (i.e., periodic restoration of aircraft to original design specifications). |
All other chemical product and preparation manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing explosives; (1) custom mixing and blending plastics resins made elsewhere or (2) reformulating plastics resins from recycled plastics products; manufacturing sensitized film, sensitized paper, sensitized cloth, sensitized plates, toners (i.e., for photocopiers, laser printers, and similar electrostatic printing devices), toner cartridges, and photographic chemicals; manufacturing chemical products (except basic chemicals, resins, and synthetic rubber; cellulosic and noncellulosic fibers and filaments; pesticides, fertilizers, and other agricultural chemicals; pharmaceuticals and medicines; paints, coatings and adhesives; soaps, cleaning compounds, and toilet preparations; printing inks; explosives; custom compounding of purchased resins; and photographic films, papers, plates, and chemicals). Illustrative Examples: Activated carbon and charcoal manufacturing, Antifreeze preparations manufacturing, Electronic cigarette vapor refills manufacturing, Industrial salt manufacturing, Lighter fluids (e.g., charcoal, cigarette) manufacturing, Matches and matchbook manufacturing, Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight bombs, signals) manufacturing, Sugar substitutes (i.e., synthetic sweeteners blended with other ingredients) made from purchased synthetic sweeteners, Swimming pool chemical preparations manufacturing, Writing inks manufacturing |
All other converted paper product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: converting paper or paperboard into products (except containers, bags, coated and treated paper, stationery products, and sanitary paper products) or converting pulp into pulp products, such as egg cartons, food trays, and other food containers from molded pulp. Illustrative Examples: Crepe paper made from purchased paper, Die-cut paper products (except for office use) made from purchased paper or paperboard, Molded pulp products (e.g., egg cartons, food containers, food trays) manufacturing, Paper novelties made from purchased paper. |
All other food and drinking places | Accommodation and Food Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing food services at institutional, governmental, commercial, or industrial locations of others based on contractual arrangements with these types of organizations for a specified period of time. The establishments of this industry provide food services for the convenience of the contracting organization or the contracting organization's customers. The contractual arrangement of these establishments with contracting organizations may vary by type of facility operated (e.g., cafeteria, restaurant, fast-food eating place), revenue sharing, cost structure, and personnel provided. Management staff is always provided by food service contractors. Illustrative Examples: Airline food service contractors, Food concession contractors (e.g., at sporting, entertainment, convention facilities), Cafeteria food service contractors (e.g., at schools, hospitals, government offices); establishments primarily engaged in providing single event-based food services. These establishments generally have equipment and vehicles to transport meals and snacks to events and/or prepare food at an off-premise site. Banquet halls with catering staff are included in this industry. Examples of events catered by establishments in this industry are graduation parties, wedding receptions, business or retirement luncheons, and trade shows; establishments primarily engaged in preparing and serving meals and snacks for immediate consumption from motorized vehicles or nonmotorized carts. The establishment is the central location from which the caterer route is serviced, not each vehicle or cart. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in providing food services from vehicles, such as hot dog carts and ice cream trucks. Illustrative Examples: Ice cream truck vendors, Mobile food concession stands, Mobile canteens, Mobile refreshment stands, Mobile food carts, Mobile snack stands; establishments known as bars, taverns, nightclubs, or drinking places primarily engaged in preparing and serving alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption. These establishments may also provide limited food services; establishments, known as cafeterias, grill buffets, or buffets, primarily engaged in preparing and serving meals for immediate consumption using cafeteria-style or buffet serving equipment, such as steam tables, refrigerated areas, display grills, and self-service nonalcoholic beverage dispensing equipment. Patrons select from food and drink items on display in a continuous cafeteria line or from buffet stations; establishments primarily engaged in (1) preparing and/or serving a specialty snack, such as ice cream, frozen yogurt, cookies, or popcorn, or (2) serving nonalcoholic beverages, such as coffee, juices, or sodas for consumption on or near the premises. These establishments may carry and sell a combination of snack, nonalcoholic beverage, and other related products (e.g., coffee beans, mugs, coffee makers) but generally promote and sell a unique snack or nonalcoholic beverage. Illustrative Examples: Beverage bars, Carryout service doughnut shops with on-premises baking, Carryout service bagel shops with on-premises baking, Carryout service pretzel shops with on-premises baking, Carryout service cookie shops with on-premises baking, Coffee shops, on-premises brewing, Ice cream parlors. |
All other food manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing perishable prepared foods, such as salads, sandwiches, prepared meals, fresh pizza, fresh pasta, and peeled or cut vegetables; manufacturing food (except animal food; grain and oilseed milling; sugar and confectionery products; preserved fruits, vegetables, and specialties; dairy products; meat products; seafood products; bakeries and tortillas; snack foods; coffee and tea; flavoring syrups and concentrates; seasonings and dressings; and perishable prepared food). Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in mixing purchased dried and/or dehydrated ingredients including those mixing purchased dried and/or dehydrated ingredients for soup mixes and bouillon. Illustrative Examples: Baking powder manufacturing |
All other forging, stamping, and sintering | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing iron and steel forgings from purchased iron and steel by hammering mill shapes. Establishments making iron and steel forgings and further manufacturing (e.g., machining, assembling) a specific manufactured product are classified in the industry of the finished product. Iron and steel forging establishments may perform surface finishing operations, such as cleaning and deburring, on the forgings they manufacture; manufacturing nonferrous forgings from purchased nonferrous metals by hammering mill shapes. Establishments making nonferrous forgings and further manufacturing (e.g., machining, assembling) a specific manufactured product are classified in the industry of the finished product. Nonferrous forging establishments may perform surface finishing operations, such as cleaning and deburring, on the forgings they manufacture; manufacturing powder metallurgy products using any of the various powder metallurgy processing techniques, such as pressing and sintering or metal injection molding. Establishments in this industry generally make a wide range of parts on a job or order basis. |
All other miscellaneous electrical equipment and component manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial and commercial electric apparatus and other equipment (except lighting equipment, household appliances, transformers, motors, generators, switchgear, relays, industrial controls, batteries, communication and energy wire and cable, wiring devices, and carbon and graphite products). This industry includes power converters (i.e., AC to DC and DC to AC), power supplies, surge suppressors, and similar equipment for industrial-type and consumer-type equipment. Illustrative Examples: Appliance cords made from purchased insulated wire, Battery chargers, solid-state, manufacturing, Door opening and closing devices, electrical, manufacturing, Electric bells manufacturing, Extension cords made from purchased insulated wire, Inverters manufacturing, Surge suppressers manufacturing, Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) manufacturing. |
All other miscellaneous manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing gaskets, packing, and sealing devices of all materials; manufacturing musical instruments (except toys); manufacturing fasteners, buttons, needles, pins, and buckles (except made of precious metals or precious and semiprecious stones and gems); manufacturing brooms, mops, and brushes; manufacturing burial caskets, cases, and vaults (except concrete); miscellaneous manufacturing (except medical equipment and supplies, jewelry and flatware, sporting and athletic goods, dolls, toys, games, office supplies (except paper), musical instruments, fasteners, buttons, needles, pins, brooms, brushes, mops, and burial caskets). Illustrative Examples: Artificial Christmas trees manufacturing, Candles manufacturing, Christmas tree ornaments (except glass and electric) manufacturing, Cigarette lighters (except precious metal) manufacturing, Coin-operated amusement machines (except jukebox) manufacturing, Electronic cigarettes manufacturing, Hairpieces (e.g., wigs, toupees, wiglets) manufacturing, Portable fire extinguishers manufacturing, Potpourri manufacturing, Tobacco pipes manufacturing, Umbrellas manufacturing |
All other transportation equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing transportation equipment (except motor vehicles, motor vehicle parts, boats, ships, railroad rolling stock, aerospace products, motorcycles, bicycles, armored vehicles and tanks). Illustrative Examples: All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled or tracked, manufacturing, Animal-drawn vehicles and parts manufacturing, Gocarts (except children's) manufacturing, Golf carts and similar motorized passenger carriers manufacturing, Race cars manufacturing, Snowmobiles and parts manufacturing. |
All other wood product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing wood pallets, wood box shook, wood boxes, other wood containers, and wood parts for pallets and containers; making manufactured homes (i.e., mobile homes) and nonresidential mobile buildings. Manufactured homes are designed to accept permanent water, sewer, and utility connections and although equipped with wheels, they are not intended for regular highway movement; manufacturing prefabricated wood buildings and wood sections and panels for prefabricated wood buildings; manufacturing wood products (except establishments operating sawmills and preservation facilities; establishments manufacturing veneer, engineered wood products, millwork, wood containers, pallets, and wood container parts; and establishments making manufactured homes (i.e., mobile homes) and prefabricated buildings and components). Illustrative Examples: Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing, Cork products (except gaskets) manufacturing, Kiln drying lumber, Shoe trees manufacturing, Wood dowels manufacturing, Wood extension ladders manufacturing, Wood handles (e.g., broom, handtool, mop), manufacturing, Wood kitchenware manufacturing, Wood stepladders, manufacturing, Wood toilet seats manufacturing, Wood toothpicks manufacturing. |
Alumina refining and primary aluminum production | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) refining alumina (i.e., aluminum oxide) generally from bauxite; (2) making aluminum from alumina; and/or (3) making aluminum from alumina and rolling, drawing, extruding, or casting the aluminum they make into primary forms. Establishments in this industry may make primary aluminum or aluminum-based alloys from alumina; (1) recovering aluminum and aluminum alloys from scrap and/or dross (i.e., secondary smelting) and making billet or ingot (except by rolling) and/or (2) manufacturing alloys, powder, paste, or flake from purchased aluminum. |
Aluminum product manufacturing from purchased aluminum | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) flat rolling or continuous casting sheet, plate, foil and welded tube from purchased aluminum and/or (2) recovering aluminum from scrap and flat rolling or continuous casting sheet, plate, foil, and welded tube in integrated mills; (1) rolling, drawing, or extruding shapes (except flat rolled sheet, plate, foil, and welded tube) from purchased aluminum and/or (2) recovering aluminum from scrap and rolling, drawing, or extruding shapes (except flat rolled sheet, plate, foil, and welded tube) in integrated mills. Illustrative Examples: Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum, Nails, aluminum, made in wire drawing plants, Rod made by extruding purchased aluminum, Structural shapes made by rolling purchased aluminum, Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum, Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants |
Ammunition, arms, ordnance, and accessories manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing small arms ammunition; manufacturing ammunition (except small arms). Examples of products made by these establishments are bombs, depth charges, rockets (except guided missiles), grenades, mines, and torpedoes; manufacturing small arms, other ordnance, and/or ordnance accessories; manufacturing small arms, other ordnance, and/or ordnance accessories. |
Amusement parks and arcades | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises establishments, known as amusement or theme parks, primarily engaged in operating a variety of attractions, such as mechanical rides, water rides, games, shows, theme exhibits, refreshment stands, and picnic grounds. These establishments may lease space to others on a concession basis; establishments primarily engaged in operating amusement (except gambling, billiard, or pool) arcades and parlors. |
Analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing instruments and instrumentation systems for laboratory analysis of the chemical or physical composition or concentration of samples of solid, fluid, gaseous, or composite material. |
Animal (except poultry) slaughtering, rendering, and processing | Manufacturing | Comprises: slaughtering animals (except poultry and small game). Establishments that slaughter and prepare meats are included in this industry; rocessing or preserving meat and meat byproducts (except poultry and small game) from purchased meats. This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in assembly cutting and packing of meats (i.e., boxed meats) from purchased meats; rendering animal fat, bones, and meat scraps. |
Animal production, except cattle and poultry and eggs | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: raising hogs and pigs. May include farming activities, such as breeding, farrowing, and the raising of weanling pigs, feeder pigs, or market size hogs; raising sheep and lambs, or feeding lambs for fattening. The sheep or lambs may be raised for sale or wool production; raising goats; (1) farm raising finfish (e.g., catfish, trout, goldfish, tropical fish, minnows) and/or (2) hatching fish of any kind; farm raising shellfish (e.g., crayfish, shrimp, oysters, clams, mollusks); (1) farm raising of aquatic animals (except finfish and shellfish) and/or (2) farm raising of aquatic plants. Alligator, algae, frog, seaweed, or turtle production is included in this industry; in raising bees. These establishments may collect and gather honey; and/or sell queen bees, packages of bees, royal jelly, bees' wax, propolis, venom, pollen, and/or other bee products; raising horses, mules, donkeys, and other equines; raising fur-bearing animals including rabbits. These animals may be raised for sale or for their pelt production; (1) raising animals (except cattle, hogs and pigs, poultry, sheep and goats, aquaculture, apiculture, horses and other equines; and fur-bearing animals including rabbits) or (2) raising a combination of animals, with no one animal or family of animals accounting for one-half of the establishment's agricultural production (i.e., value of animals for market). Illustrative Examples: Bird production (e.g., canaries, parakeets, parrots), Laboratory animal production (e.g., rats, mice, guinea pigs), Combination animal farming (except dairy, poultry), Companion animals production (e.g., cats, dogs), Worm production, Deer production, Llama production. |
Apparel manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: knitting or knitting and finishing hosiery and socks; one of the following: (1) knitting underwear, outerwear, and/or nightwear; (2) knitting fabric and manufacturing underwear, outerwear, and/or nightwear; or (3) knitting, manufacturing, and finishing knit underwear, outerwear, and/or nightwear; (1) cutting materials owned by others for apparel and accessories and/or (2) sewing materials owned by others for apparel and accessories; manufacturing men's and boys' cut and sew apparel from purchased fabric. Men's and boys' clothing jobbers, who perform entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel manufacture, including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for apparel to be made from their materials, and marketing finished apparel, are included; manufacturing women's, girls', and infants’ apparel from purchased fabric. Women's, girls', and infants’ clothing jobbers, who perform entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel manufacture, including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for apparel to be made from their materials, and marketing finished apparel, are included; manufacturing cut and sew apparel from purchased fabric (except men's, boys', women's, girls', and infants’ apparel). Clothing jobbers for these products, who perform entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel manufacture, including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for apparel to be made from their materials, and marketing finished apparel, are included. Examples of products made by these establishments are fur or leather apparel, sheep-lined clothing, team athletic uniforms, band uniforms, academic caps and gowns, clerical vestments, and costumes; manufacturing apparel and accessories (except apparel knitting mills, cut and sew apparel contractors, men's and boys' cut and sew apparel, women’s, girls', and infants’ cut and sew apparel, and other cut and sew apparel). Jobbers, who perform entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel accessories manufacture, including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for apparel accessories to be made from their materials, and marketing finished apparel accessories, are included. Examples of products made by these establishments are belts, caps, gloves (except medical, sporting, safety), hats, and neckties. |
Architectural, engineering, and related services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in planning and designing residential, institutional, leisure, commercial, and industrial buildings and structures by applying knowledge of design, construction procedures, zoning regulations, building codes, and building materials; establishments primarily engaged in planning and designing the development of land areas for projects, such as parks and other recreational areas; airports; highways; hospitals; schools; land subdivisions; and commercial, industrial, and residential areas, by applying knowledge of land characteristics, location of buildings and structures, use of land areas, and design of landscape projects. Illustrative Examples: Garden planning services, Landscape architects' offices, Golf course or ski area design services, Landscape consulting services, Industrial land use planning services, Landscape design services; establishments primarily engaged in applying physical laws and principles of engineering in the design, development, and utilization of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes, and systems. The assignments undertaken by these establishments may involve any of the following activities: provision of advice, preparation of feasibility studies, preparation of preliminary and final plans and designs, provision of technical services during the construction or installation phase, inspection and evaluation of engineering projects, and related services. Illustrative Examples: Civil engineering services, Environmental engineering services, Construction engineering services, Mechanical engineering services, Engineers' offices; establishments primarily engaged in drawing detailed layouts, plans, and illustrations of buildings, structures, systems, or components from engineering and architectural specifications; establishments primarily engaged in providing building inspection services. These establishments typically evaluate all aspects of the building structure and component systems and prepare a report on the physical condition of the property, generally for buyers or others involved in real estate transactions. Building inspection bureaus and establishments providing home inspection services are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in gathering, interpreting, and mapping geophysical data. Establishments in this industry often specialize in locating and measuring the extent of subsurface resources, such as oil, gas, and minerals, but they may also conduct surveys for engineering purposes. Establishments in this industry use a variety of surveying techniques depending on the purpose of the survey, including magnetic surveys, gravity surveys, seismic surveys, or electrical and electromagnetic surveys; establishments primarily engaged in performing surveying and mapping services of the surface of the earth, including the sea floor. These services may include surveying and mapping of areas above or below the surface of the earth, such as the creation of view easements or segregating rights in parcels of land by creating underground utility easements. Illustrative Examples: Cadastral surveying services, Mapping (except geophysical) services, Cartographic surveying services, Topographic surveying services, Geodetic surveying services; establishments primarily engaged in performing physical, chemical, and other analytical testing services, such as acoustics or vibration testing, assaying, biological testing (except medical and veterinary), calibration testing, electrical and electronic testing, geotechnical testing, mechanical testing, nondestructive testing, or thermal testing. The testing may occur in a laboratory or on-site. |
Asphalt paving mixture and block manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing asphalt and tar paving mixtures and blocks from purchased asphaltic materials. |
Asphalt shingle and coating materials manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) saturating purchased mats and felts with asphalt or tar from purchased asphaltic materials and (2) manufacturing asphalt and tar and roofing cements and coatings from purchased asphaltic materials. |
Audio and video equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electronic audio and video equipment for home entertainment, motor vehicles, and public address and musical instrument amplification. Examples of products made by these establishments are digital video recorders, televisions, stereo equipment, speaker systems, household-type video cameras, jukeboxes, and amplifiers for musical instruments and public address systems. |
Automatic environmental control manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing automatic controls and regulators for applications, such as heating, air-conditioning, refrigeration and appliances. |
Automobile manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing complete automobiles (i.e., body and chassis or unibody) or (2) manufacturing automobile chassis only. |
Automotive equipment rental and leasing | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in renting passenger cars without drivers, generally for short periods of time; establishments primarily engaged in leasing passenger cars without drivers, generally for long periods of time; establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing, without drivers, one or more of the following: trucks, truck tractors, buses, semi-trailers, utility trailers, or RVs (recreational vehicles). |
Automotive repair and maintenance | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing (1) a wide range of mechanical and electrical repair and maintenance services for automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and all trailers or (2) engine repair and replacement. Illustrative Examples: Automobile repair garages (except gasoline service stations), General automotive repair shops, Automotive engine repair and replacement shops; establishments primarily engaged in replacing or repairing exhaust systems of automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans. Illustrative Examples: Automotive exhaust system replacement and repair shops, Automotive muffler replacement and repair shops; establishments primarily engaged in replacing or repairing transmissions of automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans; establishments primarily engaged in providing specialized mechanical or electrical repair and maintenance services (except engine repair and replacement, exhaust systems repair, and transmission repair) for automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and all trailers. Illustrative Examples: Automotive brake repair shops, Automotive radiator repair shops, Automotive electrical repair shops, Automotive tune-up shops; establishments primarily engaged in repairing or customizing automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and all trailer bodies and interiors; and/or painting automotive vehicles and trailer bodies. Illustrative Examples: Automotive body shops, Automotive body conversion services, Automotive upholstery shops, Automotive paint shops; establishments primarily engaged in replacing, repairing, and/or tinting automotive vehicle glass, such as passenger car, truck, and van glass; establishments primarily engaged in changing motor oil and lubricating the chassis of automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans; establishments primarily engaged in cleaning, washing, and/or waxing automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and trailers. Illustrative Examples: Automotive detail shops, Mobile car and truck washes, Car washes; establishments primarily engaged in providing automotive repair and maintenance services (except mechanical and electrical repair and maintenance; body, paint, interior, and glass repair; motor oil change and lubrication; and car washing) for automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and all trailers. Illustrative Examples: Automotive air-conditioning repair shops, Automotive tire repair (except retreading) shops, Automotive rustproofing and undercoating shops |
Ball and roller bearing manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ball and roller bearings of all materials. |
Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots and dual-purpose ranching and farming | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: raising cattle (including cattle for dairy herd replacements); feeding cattle for fattening. |
Biogasification of food waste, incl. land application | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Biogasification of paper, incl. land application | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Biogasification of sewage sludge, incl. land application | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Biological product (except diagnostic) manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing vaccines, toxoids, blood fractions, and culture media of plant or animal origin (except diagnostic). |
Boat building | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in building boats. Boats are defined as watercraft not built in shipyards and typically of the type suitable or intended for personal use. Included in this industry are establishments that manufacture heavy-duty inflatable rubber or inflatable plastic boats (RIBs). Illustrative Examples: Dinghy (except inflatable rubber) manufacturing, Inflatable plastic boats, heavy-duty, manufacturing, Inflatable rubber boats, heavy-duty, manufacturing, Motorboats, inboard or outboard, building, Rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) manufacturing, Rowboats manufacturing, Sailboat building, not done in shipyards, Yacht building, not done in shipyards. |
Book publishers | Information | Comprises establishments known as book publishers. Establishments in Carry out design, editing, and marketing activities necessary for producing and distributing books. These establishments may publish books in print, electronic, or audio form. Illustrative Examples: Atlas publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Religious book publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Book publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), School textbook publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Encyclopedia publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Technical manual publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Map publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Travel guide book publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing). |
Bread and bakery product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: retailing bread and other bakery products not for immediate consumption made on the premises from flour, not from prepared dough; manufacturing fresh and frozen bread and bread-type rolls and other fresh bakery (except cookies and crackers) products; manufacturing frozen bakery products (except bread), such as cakes, pies, and doughnuts. |
Breakfast cereal manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing breakfast cereal foods. |
Breweries | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in brewing beer, ale, lager, malt liquors, and nonalcoholic beer. |
Broadcast and wireless communications equipment | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing radio and television broadcast and wireless communications equipment. Examples of products made by these establishments are transmitting and receiving antennas, cable television equipment, GPS equipment, pagers, cellular phones, mobile communications equipment, and radio and television studio and broadcasting equipment. |
Business support services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) letter or resume writing; (2) document editing or proofreading; (3) typing, word processing, or desktop publishing; and (4) stenography (except court reporting or stenotype recording), transcription, and other secretarial services; establishments primarily engaged in answering telephone calls and relaying messages to clients; establishments primarily engaged in operating call centers that initiate or receive communications for others via telephone, facsimile, email, or other communication modes for purposes such as: (1) promoting clients' products or services, (2) taking orders for clients, (3) soliciting contributions for a client, and (4) providing information or assistance regarding a client's products or services. These establishments do not own the product or provide the services they are representing on behalf of clients: (1) establishments primarily engaged in providing mailbox rental and other postal and mailing (except direct mail advertising) services or (2) establishments engaged in providing these mailing services along with one or more other office support services, such as facsimile services, word processing services, on-site PC rental services, and office product sales; 1) establishments generally known as copy centers or shops primarily engaged in providing photocopying, duplicating, blueprinting, and other document copying services, without also providing printing services (e.g., offset printing, quick printing, digital printing, prepress services) and (2) establishments (except private mail centers) engaged in providing a range of office support services (except printing services), such as document copying services, facsimile services, word processing services, on-site PC rental services, and office product sales; establishments primarily engaged in collecting payments for claims and remitting payments collected to their clients. Illustrative Examples: Account or delinquent account collection services, Tax collection services on a contract or fee basis, Bill or debt collection services; establishments primarily engaged in compiling information, such as credit and employment histories, and providing the information to financial institutions, retailers, and others who have a need to evaluate the creditworthiness of individuals and businesses. Illustrative Examples: Credit agencies, Credit rating services, Credit investigation services, Credit reporting bureaus; establishments primarily engaged in repossessing tangible assets (e.g., automobiles, boats, equipment, planes, furniture, appliances) for the creditor as a result of delinquent debts; establishments primarily engaged in providing verbatim reporting and stenotype recording of live legal proceedings and transcribing subsequent recorded materials. Illustrative Examples: Court reporting or stenotype recording services, Real-time (i.e., simultaneous) closed captioning of live television performances, meetings, conferences, Public stenography services; stablishments primarily engaged in providing business support services (except secretarial and other document preparation services; telephone answering and telemarketing services; private mail services or document copying services conducted as separate activities or in conjunction with other office support services; monetary debt collection services; credit reporting services; repossession services; and court reporting and stenotype recording services). Illustrative Examples: Address bar coding services, Fundraising organization services on a contract or fee basis, Bar code imprinting services, Mail presorting services. |
Cable and other subscription programming | Information | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating studios and facilities for the broadcasting of programs on a subscription or fee basis. The broadcast programming is typically narrowcast in nature (e.g., limited format, such as news, sports, education, or youth-oriented). These establishments produce programming in their own facilities or acquire programming from external sources. The programming material is usually delivered to a third party, such as cable systems or direct-to-home satellite systems, for transmission to viewers. |
Carbon and graphite product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing carbon, graphite, and metal-graphite brushes and brush stock; carbon or graphite electrodes for thermal and electrolytic uses; carbon and graphite fibers; and other carbon, graphite, and metal-graphite products. |
Carpet and rug mills | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing woven, tufted, and other carpets and rugs, such as art squares, floor mattings, needlepunch carpeting, and door mats and mattings, from textile materials or from twisted paper, grasses, reeds, sisal, jute, or rags and/or (2) finishing carpets and rugs. |
Cement manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing portland, natural, masonry, pozzolanic, and other hydraulic cements. Cement manufacturing establishments may calcine earths or mine, quarry, manufacture, or purchase lime. |
Cheese manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing cheese products (except cottage cheese) from raw milk and/or processed milk products and/or (2) manufacturing cheese substitutes from soybean and other nondairy substances. |
Child day care services | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing day care of infants or children. These establishments generally care for preschool children, but may care for older children when they are not in school and may also offer pre-kindergarten and/or kindergarten educational programs. Illustrative Examples: Child day care babysitting services, Nursery schools, Child or infant day care centers, Preschool centers. |
Civic, social, professional, and similar organizations | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in promoting the civic and social interests of their members. Establishments in this industry may operate bars and restaurants for their members. Illustrative Examples: Alumni associations, Granges, Automobile clubs (except travel), Parent-teacher associations, Booster clubs, Scouting organizations, Ethnic associations, Social clubs, Fraternal lodges, Veterans' membership organizations; establishments primarily engaged in promoting the business interests of their members. These establishments may conduct research on new products and services; develop market statistics; sponsor quality and certification standards; lobby public officials; or publish newsletters, books, or periodicals for distribution to their members. Illustrative Examples: Agricultural organizations (except youth farming organizations, farm granges), Real estate boards, Chambers of commerce, Trade associations, Manufacturers' associations; establishments primarily engaged in promoting the professional interests of their members and the profession as a whole. These establishments may conduct research; develop statistics; sponsor quality and certification standards; lobby public officials; or publish newsletters, books, or periodicals for distribution to their members. Illustrative Examples: Bar associations, Learned societies, Dentists' associations, Peer review boards, Engineers' associations, Professional standards review boards, Health professionals' associations, Scientists' associations; establishments primarily engaged in promoting the interests of national, state, or local political parties or candidates. Included are political groups organized to raise funds for a political party or individual candidates. Illustrative Examples: Campaign organizations, political, Political organizations or clubs, Political action committees (PACs), Political parties, Political campaign organizations; establishments (except religious organizations, social advocacy organizations, civic and social organizations, business associations, professional organizations, labor unions, and political organizations) primarily engaged in promoting the interests of their members. Illustrative Examples: Athletic associations and leagues, regulatory, Property owners' associations, Condominium and homeowners' associations, Tenants’ associations (except advocacy), Cooperative owners' associations. |
Clay product and refractory manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, plumbing fixtures, and electrical supplies made entirely or partly of clay or other ceramic materials. Illustrative Examples: Bathroom accessories, vitreous china and earthenware, manufacturing, Ceramic or ferrite permanent magnets manufacturing, Chemical stoneware (i.e., pottery products) manufacturing, Clay and ceramic statuary manufacturing, Earthenware table and kitchen articles, coarse, manufacturing, Porcelain electrical insulators manufacturing, Vitreous china plumbing fixtures manufacturing; shaping, molding, baking, burning, or hardening clay refractories, nonclay refractories, ceramic tile, structural clay tile, brick, and other structural clay building materials. A refractory is a material that will retain its shape and chemical identity when subjected to high temperatures and is used in applications that require extreme resistance to heat, such as furnace linings. |
Coal mining | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) surface mining of bituminous coal and lignite; (2) developing bituminous coal and lignite surface mine sites; (3) surface mining and beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing) of bituminous coal; or (4) beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing coal), but not mining, bituminous coal; one or more of the following: (1) underground mining of bituminous coal; (2) developing bituminous coal underground mine sites; and (3) underground mining and beneficiating of bituminous coal (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing coal); one or more of the following: (1) mining anthracite coal; (2) developing anthracite coal mine sites; and (3) beneficiating anthracite coal (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing coal). |
Coating, engraving, heat treating and allied activities | Manufacturing | Comprises: heat treating, such as annealing, tempering, and brazing, and cryogenically treating metals and metal products for the trade; one or more of the following: (1) enameling, lacquering, and varnishing metals and metal products; (2) hot dip galvanizing metals and metal products; (3) engraving, chasing, or etching metals and metal products (except jewelry; personal goods carried on or about the person, such as compacts and cigarette cases; precious metal products (except precious plated flatware and other plated ware); and printing plates); (4) powder coating metals and metal products; and (5) providing other metal surfacing services for the trade. Included in this industry are establishments that perform these processes on other materials, such as plastics, in addition to metals; electroplating, plating, anodizing, coloring, buffing, polishing, cleaning, and sandblasting metals and metal products for the trade. Included in this industry are establishments that perform these processes on other materials, such as plastics, in addition to metals. |
Coffee and tea manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) roasting coffee; (2) manufacturing coffee and tea concentrates (including instant and freeze-dried); (3) blending tea; (4) manufacturing herbal tea; and (5) manufacturing coffee extracts, flavorings, and syrups. |
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing off-highway transportation equipment without operators, such as aircraft, railroad cars, steamships, or tugboats; establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing heavy equipment without operators that may be used for construction, mining, or forestry, such as bulldozers, earthmoving equipment, well drilling machinery and equipment, or cranes; establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing office machinery and equipment, such as computers, office furniture, duplicating machines (i.e., copiers), or facsimile machines; establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing nonconsumer-type machinery and equipment (except heavy construction, transportation, mining, and forestry machinery and equipment without operators; and office machinery and equipment). Establishments in this industry rent or lease products, such as manufacturing equipment; metalworking, telecommunications, motion picture, theatrical machinery and equipment, or service industry machinery; institutional (i.e., public building) furniture, such as furniture for schools, theaters, or buildings; or agricultural equipment without operators. |
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in the repair and maintenance of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment. Establishments in this industry either sharpen/install commercial and industrial machinery blades and saws or provide welding (e.g., automotive, general) repair services; or repair agricultural and other heavy and industrial machinery and equipment (e.g., forklifts and other material handling equipment, machine tools, commercial refrigeration equipment, construction equipment, and mining machinery). |
Commercial structures, including farm structures | Construction | Comprises establishments primarily responsible for the construction (including new work, additions, alterations, maintenance, and repairs) of commercial and institutional buildings and related structures, such as stadiums, grain elevators, and indoor swimming facilities. This industry includes establishments responsible for the on-site assembly of modular or prefabricated commercial and institutional buildings. Included in this industry are commercial and institutional building general contractors, commercial and institutional building for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building design-build firms, and commercial and institutional building project construction management firms. Illustrative Examples: Airport building construction, Office building construction, Arena construction, Parking garage construction, Barrack construction, Prison construction, Farm building construction, Radio and television broadcast studio construction, Fire station construction, Religious building (e.g., church, synagogue, mosque, temple) construction, Grain elevator or bin construction, Restaurant construction, Hospital construction, School building construction, Hotel construction, Shopping mall construction, Indoor swimming facility construction, Warehouse construction (e.g., commercial, industrial, manufacturing, private). |
Communication and energy wire and cable manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing insulated fiber optic cable from purchased fiber optic strand; manufacturing insulated wire and cable of nonferrous metals from purchased wire. |
Community food, housing, and other relief services, including rehabilitation services | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in the collection, preparation, and delivery of food for the needy. Establishments in this industry may also distribute clothing and blankets to the poor. These establishments may prepare and deliver meals to persons who by reason of age, disability, or illness are unable to prepare meals for themselves; collect and distribute salvageable or donated food; or prepare and provide meals at fixed or mobile locations. Food banks, meal delivery programs, and soup kitchens are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in providing (1) short-term emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or child abuse and/or (2) temporary residential shelter for homeless individuals or families, runaway youth, and patients and families caught in medical crises. These establishments may operate their own shelters or may subsidize housing using existing homes, apartments, hotels, or motels; establishments primarily engaged in providing one or more of the following community housing services: (1) transitional housing to low-income individuals and families; (2) volunteer construction or repair of low-cost housing, in partnership with the homeowner who may assist in the construction or repair work; and (3) the repair of homes for elderly or disabled homeowners. These establishments may subsidize housing using existing homes, apartments, hotels, or motels or may require a low-cost mortgage or sweat equity. These establishments may also provide low-income families with furniture and household supplies; establishments primarily engaged in providing food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counseling to victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts (e.g., wars); (1) establishments primarily engaged in providing vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services, such as job counseling, job training, and work experience, to unemployed and underemployed persons, persons with disabilities, and persons who have a job market disadvantage because of lack of education, job skill, or experience and (2) establishments primarily engaged in providing training and employment to persons with disabilities. Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) and sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) are included in this industry. |
Composting of food waste, incl. land application | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Composting of paper and wood, incl. land application | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Computer storage device manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing computer storage devices that allow the storage and retrieval of data from a phase change, magnetic, optical, or magnetic/optical media. Examples of products made by these establishments are CD-ROM drives, floppy disk drives, hard disk drives, and tape storage and backup units. |
Computer systems design services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in planning and designing computer systems that integrate computer hardware, software, and communication technologies. The hardware and software components of the system may be provided by this establishment or company as part of integrated services or may be provided by third parties or vendors. These establishments often install the system and train and support users of the system. Illustrative Examples: Computer systems integration design consulting services, Local area network (LAN) computer systems integration design services, Information management computer systems integration design services, Office automation computer systems integration design services. |
Computer terminals and other computer peripheral equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing computer terminals and other computer peripheral equipment (except storage devices). Illustrative Examples: Automatic teller machines (ATM) manufacturing, Computer terminals manufacturing, Joystick devices manufacturing, Keyboards, computer peripheral equipment, manufacturing, Monitors, computer peripheral equipment, manufacturing, Mouse devices, computer peripheral equipment, manufacturing, Optical readers and scanners manufacturing, Plotters, computer, manufacturing, Point-of-sale terminals manufacturing, Printers, computer, manufacturing. |
Concrete pipe, brick, and block manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing concrete block and brick; manufacturing concrete pipe. |
Construction machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing construction machinery, surface mining machinery, and logging equipment. Illustrative Examples: Backhoes manufacturing, Bulldozers manufacturing, Construction and surface mining-type rock drill bits manufacturing, Construction-type tractors and attachments manufacturing, Off-highway trucks manufacturing, Pile-driving equipment manufacturing, Portable crushing, pulverizing, and screening machinery manufacturing, Powered post hole diggers manufacturing, Road graders manufacturing, Surface mining machinery (except drilling) manufacturing. |
Consumer goods and general rental centers | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in renting consumer electronics equipment and appliances, such as televisions, stereos, and refrigerators. Included in this industry are appliance rental centers; establishments primarily engaged in renting clothing, such as formal wear, costumes (e.g., theatrical), or other clothing (except laundered uniforms and work apparel); establishments primarily engaged in renting prerecorded video tapes and discs for home electronic equipment; establishments primarily engaged in renting home-type health and invalid equipment, such as wheel chairs, hospital beds, oxygen tanks, walkers, and crutches; establishments primarily engaged in renting recreational goods, such as bicycles, canoes, motorcycles, skis, sailboats, beach chairs, and beach umbrellas; establishments primarily engaged in renting consumer goods and products (except consumer electronics and appliances; formal wear and costumes; prerecorded video tapes and discs for home electronic equipment; home health furniture and equipment; and recreational goods). Included in this industry are furniture rental centers and party rental supply centers; establishments primarily engaged in renting a range of consumer, commercial, and industrial equipment. Establishments in this industry typically operate from conveniently located facilities where they maintain inventories of goods and equipment that they rent for short periods of time. The type of equipment that establishments in this industry provide often includes, but is not limited to: audio visual equipment, contractors' and builders' tools and equipment, home repair tools, lawn and garden equipment, moving equipment and supplies, and party and banquet equipment and supplies. |
Cookie, cracker, pasta, and tortilla manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing cookies, crackers, and other products, such as ice cream cones; (1) manufacturing dry pasta and/or (2) manufacturing prepared flour mixes or dough from flour ground elsewhere. The establishments in this industry may package the dry pasta they manufacture with other ingredients.; (1) manufacturing dry pasta and/or (2) manufacturing prepared flour mixes or dough from flour ground elsewhere. The establishments in this industry may package the dry pasta they manufacture with other ingredients; manufacturing tortillas. |
Copper rolling, drawing, extruding and alloying | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) recovering copper or copper alloys from scraps; (2) alloying purchased copper; (3) rolling, drawing, or extruding shapes (e.g., bar, plate, sheet, strip, tube, wire) from purchased copper; and (4) recovering copper or copper alloys from scrap and rolling, drawing, or extruding shapes (e.g., bar, plate, sheet, strip, tube, wire). |
Copper, nickel, lead, and zinc mining | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining of copper, nickel, lead, or zinc. |
Couriers and messengers | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: providing air, surface, or combined mode courier and express delivery services of parcels, but not operating under a universal service obligation. These parcels can include goods and documents, but the express delivery services are not part of the normal mail service. These services are generally between metropolitan areas, urban centers, or international, but the establishments of this industry form a network that includes local pick-up and delivery to serve their customers' needs. Illustrative Examples: Air courier services, except establishments operating under a universal service obligation, Express delivery services, except establishments operating under a universal service obligation, Courier services (i.e., intercity network), except establishments operating under a universal service obligation; providing local messenger and delivery services of small items within a single metropolitan area or within an urban center. These establishments generally provide point-to-point pick-up and delivery and do not operate as part of an intercity courier network. Illustrative Examples: Alcoholic beverages delivery services, Letters, documents, or small parcels local delivery services, Grocery delivery services (i.e., independent service from grocery store), Restaurant meals delivery services (i.e., independent service from restaurant). |
Crown and closure manufacturing and metal stamping | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) stamping metal crowns and closures, such as bottle caps and home canning lids and rings, and/or (2) manufacturing other unfinished metal stampings and spinning unfinished metal products (except automotive, cans, and coins). Establishments making metal stampings and metal spun products and further manufacturing (e.g., machining, assembling) a specific product are classified in the industry of the finished product. Metal stamping and metal spun products establishments may perform surface finishing operations, such as cleaning and deburring, on the products they manufacture. |
Cultivation of paddy rice | Agriculture, hunting and forestry | Growing of paddy rice. |
Cultivation of plant-based fibers | Agriculture, hunting and forestry | Growing of plantbased fibers including jute, flax, and coir. |
Cultivation of sugar cane, sugar beet | Agriculture, hunting and forestry | Growing of sugar cane or sugar beet. |
Cultivation of wheat | Agriculture, hunting and forestry | Growing of wheat. |
Curtain and linen mills | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing household textile products, such as curtains, draperies, linens, bedspreads, sheets, tablecloths, towels, and shower curtains, from purchased materials. The household textile products may be made on a stock or custom basis for sale to individual retail customers; manufacturing household textile products, such as curtains, draperies, linens, bedspreads, sheets, tablecloths, towels, and shower curtains, from purchased materials. The household textile products may be made on a stock or custom basis for sale to individual retail customers. |
Custom computer programming services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in writing, modifying, testing, and supporting software to meet the needs of a particular customer. |
Custom roll forming | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in custom roll forming metal products by use of rotary motion of rolls with various contours to bend or shape the products. |
Cut stone and stone product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in cutting, shaping, and finishing granite, marble, limestone, slate, and other stone for building and miscellaneous uses. Stone product manufacturing establishments may mine, quarry, or purchase stone. |
Cutlery and handtool manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal kitchen cookware (except by casting (e.g., cast iron skillets) or stamped without further fabrication), utensils, and/or nonprecious and precious plated metal cutlery and flatware; (1) manufacturing saw blades, all types (including those for power sawing machines) and/or (2) manufacturing nonpowered handtools and edge tools. |
Cutting and machine tool accessory, rolling mill, and other metalworking machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing rolling mill machinery and equipment and/or other metalworking machinery (except industrial molds; special dies and tools, die sets, jigs, and fixtures; cutting tools and machine tool accessories; and machine tools). Illustrative Examples: Assembly machines manufacturing, Cradle assemblies machinery (i.e., wire making equipment) manufacturing, Metalworking coil winding and cutting machinery manufacturing, Rolling mill roll machines, metalworking, manufacturing, Wire drawing and fabricating machinery and equipment (except dies) manufacturing. |
Dairy cattle and milk production | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in milking dairy cattle. |
Data processing, hosting, and related services | Information | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing infrastructure for hosting or data processing services. These establishments may provide specialized hosting activities, such as Web hosting, streaming services, or application hosting (except software publishing), or they may provide general time-share mainframe facilities to clients. Data processing establishments provide complete processing and specialized reports from data supplied by clients or provide automated data processing and data entry services. Illustrative Examples: Application hosting, Optical scanning services, Web hosting, Computer data storage services, Video and audio streaming services, Computer input preparation services, Microfilm imaging services, Computer time rental. |
Death care services | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial or interment and conducting funerals (i.e., providing facilities for wakes, arranging transportation for the dead, selling caskets and related merchandise). Funeral homes combined with crematories are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of human or animal remains and/or cremating the dead. Illustrative Examples: Cemetery associations (i.e., operators of cemeteries), Memorial gardens (i.e., burial places), Crematories (except combined with funeral homes), Pet cemeteries, Mausoleums. |
Dental equipment and supplies manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing dental equipment and supplies used by dental laboratories and offices of dentists, such as dental chairs, dental instrument delivery systems, dental hand instruments, dental impression material, and dental cements. |
Dental laboratories | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing dentures, crowns, bridges, and orthodontic appliances customized for individual application. |
Directory, mailing list, and other publishers | Information | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in publishing directories, mailing lists, and collections or compilations of fact. The products are typically protected in their selection, arrangement and/or presentation. Examples are lists of mailing addresses, telephone directories, directories of businesses, collections or compilations of proprietary drugs or legal case results, compilations of public records, etc. These establishments may publish directories and mailing lists in print or electronic form. Illustrative Examples: Business directory publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Mailing list publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Directory publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Telephone directory publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing); establishments primarily engaged in publishing greeting cards; establishments generally known as publishers (except newspaper, magazine, book, directory, database, music, and greeting card publishers). These establishments may publish works in print or electronic form. Illustrative Examples: Art print publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Calendar publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing). |
Distilleries | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) distilling potable liquors (except brandies); (2) distilling and blending liquors; and (3) blending and mixing liquors and other ingredients. |
Distribution and trade of electricity | Electricity, gas and water supply | Distribution of electric energy through power grids to endusers (households, industries, commercial establishments) and associated trading activities. |
Dog and cat food manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing dog and cat food from ingredients, such as grains, oilseed mill products, and meat products. |
Doll, toy, and game manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing complete dolls, doll parts, doll clothes, action figures, toys, games (including electronic), hobby kits, and children's vehicles (except metal bicycles and tricycles). |
Drilling oil and gas wells | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in drilling oil and gas wells for others on a contract or fee basis. This industry includes contractors that specialize in spudding in, drilling in, redrilling, and directional drilling. |
Dry-cleaning and laundry services | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating facilities with coin-operated or similar self-service laundry and drycleaning equipment for customer use on the premises and/or (2) supplying and servicing coin-operated or similar self-service laundry and drycleaning equipment for customer use in places of business operated by others, such as apartments and dormitories; establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) providing drycleaning services (except coin-operated); (2) providing laundering services (except linen and uniform supply or coin-operated); (3) providing drop-off and pick-up sites for laundries and/or drycleaners; and (4) providing specialty cleaning services for specific types of garments and other textile items (except carpets and upholstery), such as fur, leather, or suede garments; wedding gowns; hats; draperies; and pillows. These establishments may provide all, a combination of, or none of the cleaning services on the premises; establishments primarily engaged in supplying, on a rental or contract basis, laundered items, such as table and bed linens; towels; diapers; and uniforms, gowns, or coats of the type used by doctors, nurses, barbers, beauticians, and waitresses; establishments primarily engaged in supplying, on a rental or contract basis, laundered industrial work uniforms and related work clothing, such as protective apparel (flame and heat resistant) and clean room apparel; dust control items, such as treated mops, rugs, mats, dust tool covers, cloths, and shop or wiping towels. |
Dry, condensed, and evaporated dairy product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing dry, condensed, and evaporated milk and dairy substitute products. |
Educational and vocational structures | Construction | Comprises buildings and structures for educational and vocational practices. |
Electric lamp bulb and part manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electric light bulbs and tubes, and parts and components (except glass blanks for electric light bulbs). |
Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution | Utilities | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating fossil fuel powered electric power generation facilities. These facilities use fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, or gas, in internal combustion or combustion turbine conventional steam process to produce electric energy. The electric energy produced in these establishments is provided to electric power transmission systems or to electric power distribution systems. |
Electricity and signal testing instruments manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing instruments for measuring and testing the characteristics of electricity and electrical signals. Examples of products made by these establishments are circuit and continuity testers, voltmeters, ohm meters, wattmeters, multimeters, and semiconductor test equipment. |
Electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus, such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment, medical ultrasound equipment, pacemakers, hearing aids, electrocardiographs, and electromedical endoscopic equipment. |
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in repairing and maintaining consumer electronics, such as televisions, stereos, speakers, video recorders, CD and DVD players, radios, and cameras, without retailing new consumer electronics; establishments primarily engaged in repairing and maintaining computers and office machines without retailing new computers and office machines, such as photocopying machines; computer terminals, storage devices, and printers; and CD-ROM drives; establishments primarily engaged in repairing and maintaining communication equipment without retailing new communication equipment, such as telephones, fax machines, communications transmission equipment, and two-way radios; establishments primarily engaged in repairing and maintaining (without retailing) electronic and precision equipment (except consumer electronics, computers and office machines, and communications equipment). Establishments in this industry repair and maintain equipment, such as medical diagnostic imaging equipment, measuring and surveying instruments, laboratory instruments, and radar and sonar equipment. |
Electronic computer manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and/or assembling electronic computers, such as mainframes, personal computers, workstations, laptops, and computer servers. Computers can be analog, digital, or hybrid. Digital computers, the most common type, are devices that do all of the following: (1) store the processing program or programs and the data immediately necessary for the execution of the program; (2) can be freely programmed in accordance with the requirements of the user; (3) perform arithmetical computations specified by the user; and (4) execute, without human intervention, a processing program that requires the computer to modify its execution by logical decision during the processing run. Analog computers are capable of simulating mathematical models and contain at least analog, control, and programming elements. The manufacture of computers includes the assembly or integration of processors, coprocessors, memory, storage, and input/output devices into a user-programmable final product. |
Elementary and secondary schools | Educational Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in furnishing academic courses and associated course work that comprise a basic preparatory education. A basic preparatory education ordinarily constitutes kindergarten through 12th grade. This industry includes school boards and school districts. Illustrative Examples: Elementary schools, Parochial schools, elementary or secondary, High schools,Primary schools, Kindergartens, Schools for the physically disabled, elementary or secondary, Military academies, elementary or secondary. |
Employment services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in listing employment vacancies and in referring or placing applicants for employment. The individuals referred or placed are not employees of the employment agencies. Illustrative Examples: Babysitting bureaus (i.e., registries), Employment registries, Casting agencies or bureaus (i.e., motion picture, theatrical, video), Model registries, Employment agencies; establishments primarily engaged in providing executive search, recruitment, and placement services for clients with specific executive and senior management position requirements. The range of services provided by these establishments may include developing a search strategy and position specification based on the culture and needs of the client; researching, identifying, screening, and interviewing candidates; verifying candidate qualifications; and assisting in final offer negotiations and assimilation of the selected candidate. The individuals identified, recruited, or placed are not employees of the executive search services establishments. Illustrative Examples: Senior executive search services, Executive placement services, Executive search services; establishments primarily engaged in supplying workers to clients' businesses for limited periods of time to supplement the working force of the client. The individuals provided are employees of the temporary help services establishment. However, these establishments do not provide direct supervision of their employees at the clients' work sites. Illustrative Examples: Help supply services, Model supply services, Labor (except farm) contractors (i.e., personnel suppliers), Temporary employment or temporary staffing services, Manpower pools; establishments primarily engaged in providing human resources and human resource management services to client businesses and households. Establishments in this industry operate in a co-employment relationship with client businesses or organizations and are specialized in performing a wide range of human resource and personnel management duties, such as payroll, payroll tax, benefits administration, workers' compensation, unemployment, and human resource administration. Professional employer organizations (PEOs) are responsible for payroll, including withholding and remitting employment-related taxes, for some or all of the employees of their clients, and also serve as the employer of those employees for benefits and related purposes. |
Environmental and other technical consulting services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations on environmental issues, such as the control of environmental contamination from pollutants, toxic substances, and hazardous materials. These establishments identify problems (e.g., inspect buildings for hazardous materials), measure and evaluate risks, and recommend solutions. They employ a multidisciplined staff of scientists, engineers, and other technicians with expertise in areas, such as air and water quality, asbestos contamination, remediation, ecological restoration, and environmental law. Establishments providing sanitation or site remediation consulting services are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in providing advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations on scientific and technical issues (except environmental). Illustrative Examples: Agricultural consulting services, Motion picture consulting services, Biological consulting services, Physics consulting services, Chemical consulting services, Radio consulting services, Economic consulting services, Safety consulting services, Energy consulting services, Security consulting services. |
Extra-territorial organizations and bodies | Extra-territorial organizations and bodies|Other community, social and personal service activities | International organizations: Bodies such as the United Nations (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, International Red Cross, World Trade Organization (WTO), etc., which operate across multiple countries and territories. |
Extraction of natural gas and services related to natural gas extraction, excluding surveying | Mining and quarrying | Extraction of natural gas, including natural products obtained from gas wells. |
Extraction, liquefaction, and regasification of other petroleum and gaseous materials | Mining and quarrying | Extraction of crude petroleum oils and bituminous minerals, regardless of composition, obtained through various extraction methods. |
Fabric mills | Manufacturing | Comprises: weaving broadwoven fabrics and felts (except tire fabrics and rugs). Establishments in this industry may weave only, weave and finish, or weave, finish, and further fabricate fabric products; one or more of the following: (1) weaving or braiding narrow fabrics in their final form or initially made in wider widths that are specially constructed for narrower widths; (2) making fabric-covered elastic yarn and thread; and (3) manufacturing Schiffli machine embroideries. Establishments in this industry may weave only; weave and finish; or weave, finish, and further fabricate fabric products; one or more of the following: (1) weaving or braiding narrow fabrics in their final form or initially made in wider widths that are specially constructed for narrower widths; (2) making fabric-covered elastic yarn and thread; and (3) manufacturing Schiffli machine embroideries. Establishments in this industry may weave only; weave and finish; or weave, finish, and further fabricate fabric products; manufacturing nonwoven fabrics and felts. Processes used include bonding and/or interlocking fibers by mechanical, chemical, thermal, or solvent means, or by combinations thereof; one of the following: (1) knitting weft (i.e., circular) and warp (i.e., flat) fabric; (2) knitting and finishing weft and warp fabric; (3) manufacturing lace; or (4) manufacturing, dyeing, and finishing lace and lace goods. Establishments in this industry may knit only; knit and finish; or knit, finish, and further fabricate fabric products (except apparel); one of the following: (1) knitting weft (i.e., circular) and warp (i.e., flat) fabric; (2) knitting and finishing weft and warp fabric; (3) manufacturing lace; or (4) manufacturing, dyeing, and finishing lace and lace goods. Establishments in this industry may knit only; knit and finish; or knit, finish, and further fabricate fabric products (except apparel). |
Fabricated pipe and pipe fitting manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in fabricating, such as cutting, threading, and bending, metal pipes and pipe fittings made from purchased metal pipe. |
Facilities support services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing operating staff to perform a combination of support services within a client's facilities. Establishments in this industry typically provide a combination of services, such as janitorial, maintenance, trash disposal, guard and security, mail routing, reception, laundry, and related services to support operations within facilities. These establishments provide operating staff to carry out these support activities, but are not involved with or responsible for the core business or activities of the client. Establishments providing facilities (except computer and/or data processing) operation support services and establishments providing private jail services or operating correctional facilities (i.e., jails) on a contract or fee basis are included in this industry. |
Farm machinery and equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing agricultural and farm machinery and equipment, and other turf and grounds care equipment, including planting, harvesting, and grass mowing equipment (except lawn and garden-type). Illustrative Examples: Combines (i.e., harvester-threshers) manufacturing, Cotton ginning machinery manufacturing, Feed processing equipment, farm-type, manufacturing, Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing, Grass mowing equipment (except lawn and garden) manufacturing, Haying machines manufacturing, Milking machines manufacturing, Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing, Plows, farm-type, manufacturing, Poultry brooders, feeders, and waterers manufacturing, Tractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing. |
Fats and oils refining and blending | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing shortening and margarine from purchased fats and oils; (2) refining and/or blending vegetable, oilseed, and tree nut oils from purchased oils; and (3) blending purchased animal fats with purchased vegetable fats. |
Ferrous metal foundries | Manufacturing | Comprises: pouring molten pig iron or iron alloys into molds to manufacture castings (e.g., cast iron manhole covers, cast iron pipe, cast iron skillets). Establishments in this industry purchase iron made in other establishments; manufacturing steel investment castings. Investment molds are formed by covering a wax shape with a refractory slurry. After the refractory slurry hardens, the wax is melted, leaving a seamless mold. Investment molds provide highly detailed, consistent castings. Establishments in this industry purchase steel made in other establishments; manufacturing steel castings (except steel investment castings). Establishments in this industry purchase steel made in other establishments. |
Fertilizer manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing nitrogenous fertilizer materials and mixing ingredients into fertilizers; (2) manufacturing fertilizers from sewage or animal waste; and (3) manufacturing nitrogenous materials and mixing them into fertilizers; (1) manufacturing phosphatic fertilizer materials or (2) manufacturing phosphatic materials and mixing them into fertilizers; mixing ingredients made elsewhere into fertilizers. |
Fiber, yarn, and thread mills | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) spinning yarn; (2) manufacturing thread of any fiber; (3) texturizing, throwing, twisting, and winding purchased yarn or manmade fiber filaments; and (4) producing hemp yarn and further processing into rope or bags; one or more of the following: (1) spinning yarn; (2) manufacturing thread of any fiber; (3) texturizing, throwing, twisting, and winding purchased yarn or manmade fiber filaments; and (4) producing hemp yarn and further processing into rope or bags; one or more of the following: (1) spinning yarn; (2) manufacturing thread of any fiber; (3) texturizing, throwing, twisting, and winding purchased yarn or manmade fiber filaments; and (4) producing hemp yarn and further processing into rope or bags. |
Fishing, hunting and trapping | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: the commercial catching or taking of finfish (e.g., bluefish, salmon, trout, tuna) from their natural habitat; the commercial catching or taking of shellfish (e.g., clams, crabs, lobsters, mussels, oysters, sea urchins, shrimp) from their natural habitat; the commercial catching or taking of marine animals (except finfish and shellfish); one or more of the following: (1) commercial hunting and trapping; (2) operating commercial game preserves, such as game retreats; and (3) operating hunting preserves. |
Flavoring syrup and concentrate manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing flavoring syrup drink concentrates and related products for soda fountain use or for the manufacture of soft drinks. |
Flour milling and malt manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) milling flour or meal from grains (except rice) or vegetables and/or (2) milling flour and preparing flour mixes or doughs.; one of the following: (1) milling rice; (2) cleaning and polishing rice; or (3) milling, cleaning, and polishing rice. The establishments in this industry may package the rice they mill with other ingredients; manufacturing malt from barley, rye, or other grains. |
Fluid milk and butter manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) manufacturing processed milk products, such as pasteurized milk or cream and sour cream and/or (2) manufacturing fluid milk dairy substitutes from soybeans and other nondairy substances; manufacturing creamery butter from milk and/or processed milk products. |
Fluid power process machinery | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fluid power (i.e., hydraulic and pneumatic) cylinders and actuators. |
Food and beverage stores | Retail Trade | Comprises: establishments generally known as supermarkets and grocery stores primarily engaged in retailing a general line of food, such as canned and frozen foods; fresh fruits and vegetables; and fresh and prepared meats, fish, and poultry. Included in this industry are delicatessen-type establishments primarily engaged in retailing a general line of food; establishments known as convenience stores or food marts (except those with fuel pumps) primarily engaged in retailing a limited line of goods that generally includes milk, bread, soda, and snacks; establishments primarily engaged in retailing fresh, frozen, or cured meats and poultry. Delicatessen-type establishments primarily engaged in retailing fresh meat are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Baked ham stores, Meat markets, Butcher shops, Poultry dealers, Frozen meat shops; establishments primarily engaged in retailing fresh, frozen, or cured fish and seafood products; establishments primarily engaged in retailing fresh fruits and vegetables; primarily engaged in retailing baked goods not for immediate consumption and not made on the premises; establishments primarily engaged in retailing candy and other confections, nuts, and popcorn not for immediate consumption and not made on the premises; establishments primarily engaged in retailing miscellaneous specialty foods (except meat, fish, seafood, fruit and vegetables, confections, nuts, popcorn, and baked goods) not for immediate consumption and not made on the premises. Illustrative Examples: Coffee and tea (i.e., packaged) stores, Soft drink (i.e., bottled) stores, Dairy product stores, Spice stores, Gourmet food stores, Water (i.e., bottled) stores; establishments primarily engaged in retailing packaged alcoholic beverages, such as ale, beer, wine, and liquor. |
Forestry and logging | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: the operation of timber tracts for the purpose of selling standing timber; (1) growing trees for reforestation and/or (2) gathering forest products, such as gums, barks, balsam needles, rhizomes, fibers, Spanish moss, ginseng, and truffles; one or more of the following: (1) cutting timber; (2) cutting and transporting timber; and (3) producing wood chips in the field; |
Frozen food manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing frozen fruits; frozen vegetables; and frozen fruit juices, ades, drinks, cocktail mixes and concentrates; manufacturing frozen specialty foods (except seafood), such as frozen dinners, entrees, and side dishes; frozen pizza; frozen whipped topping; and frozen waffles, pancakes, and french toast. |
Fruit and tree nut farming | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: growing apples; growing oranges; growing citrus fruits. Illustrative Examples: Citrus groves (except oranges), Mandarin groves, Grapefruit groves, Tangelo groves, Lemon groves, Tangerine groves; growing grapes and/or growing grapes to sun dry into raisins; growing strawberries; growing berries. Illustrative Examples: Berry farming, Cranberry farming, Blackberry farming, Currant farming, Blueberry farming, Raspberry farming; growing tree nuts. Illustrative Examples: Almond farming, Pistachio farming, Filbert farming, Tree nut farming, Macadamia farming, Walnut farming, Pecan farming; growing a combination of fruit(s) and tree nut(s) with no one fruit (or family of fruit) or family of tree nuts accounting for one-half of the establishment's agricultural production (i.e., value of crops for market); growing noncitrus fruits (except apples, grapes, berries, and fruit(s) and tree nut(s) combinations). Illustrative Examples: Apricot farming, Fig farming, Banana farming, Noncitrus fruit farming, Cherry farming, Peach farming, Coffee farming, Pineapple farming, Date farming, Prune farming. |
Fruit and vegetable canning, pickling, and drying | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing canned, pickled, and brined fruits and vegetables. Examples of products made in these establishments are canned juices; canned jams and jellies; canned tomato-based sauces, such as catsup, salsa, chili sauce, spaghetti sauce, barbeque sauce, and tomato paste; and pickles, relishes, and sauerkraut; manufacturing canned specialty foods. Examples of products made in these establishments are canned baby food, canned baked beans, canned soups (except seafood), canned spaghetti, and other canned nationality foods; (1) drying (including freeze-dried) and/or dehydrating fruits, vegetables, and soup mixes and bouillon and/or (2) drying and/or dehydrating ingredients and packaging them with other purchased ingredients, such as rice and dry pasta. |
Full-service restaurants | Accommodation and Food Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing food services to patrons who order and are served while seated (i.e., waiter/waitress service) and pay after eating. These establishments may provide this type of food service to patrons in combination with selling alcoholic beverages, providing carryout services, or presenting live nontheatrical entertainment. |
Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles | Finance and Insurance | Comprises: legal entities (i.e., funds, plans, and/or programs) organized to provide retirement income benefits exclusively for the sponsor's employees or members. Illustrative Examples: Employee benefit plans, Retirement plans, Pension funds and plans; legal entities (i.e., funds, plans, and/or programs) organized to provide medical, surgical, hospital, vacation, training, and other health- and welfare-related employee benefits exclusively for the sponsor's employees or members; legal entities (i.e., funds (except pension, and health- and welfare-related employee benefit funds)) organized to provide insurance exclusively for the sponsor, firm, or its employees or members. Self-insurance funds (except employee benefit funds) and workers' compensation insurance funds are included in this industry; legal entities (i.e., open-end investment funds) organized to pool assets that consist of securities or other financial instruments. Shares in these pools are offered to the public in an initial offering with additional shares offered continuously and perpetually and redeemed at a specific price determined by the net asset value. Illustrative Examples: Investment funds, open-ended, Money market mutual funds, open-ended; legal entities, trusts, estates, or agency accounts, administered on behalf of the beneficiaries under the terms of a trust agreement, will, or agency agreement. Illustrative Examples: Bankruptcy estates, Private estates (i.e., administering on behalf of beneficiaries), Personal investment trusts, Testamentary trusts; legal entities (i.e., funds (except insurance and employee benefit funds; open-end investment funds; trusts, estates, and agency accounts)). Included in this industry are mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs). Illustrative Examples: Closed-end investment funds, Special purpose financial vehicles, Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), Unit investment trust funds, Face-amount certificate funds, Mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs), Real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs). |
Gambling industries (except casino hotels) | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating gambling facilities that offer table wagering games along with other gambling activities, such as slot machines and sports betting. These establishments often provide food and beverage services. Included in this industry are floating casinos (i.e., gambling cruises, riverboat casinos); establishments primarily engaged in operating gambling facilities (except casinos or casino hotels) or providing gambling services. Illustrative Examples: Bingo, off-track betting, or slot machine parlors, Coin-operated gambling device concession operators (i.e., supplying and servicing in others’ facilities), Bookmakers, Lottery ticket sales agents (except retail stores), Card rooms (e.g., poker rooms). |
General merchandise stores | Retail Trade | Comprises: establishments known as department stores that have separate departments for general lines of new merchandise, such as apparel, jewelry, home furnishings, and toys, with no one merchandise line predominating. Department stores may sell perishable groceries, such as fresh fruits, vegetables, and dairy products, but such sales are insignificant. Department stores may have separate customer checkout areas in each department, central customer checkout areas, or both; establishments known as warehouse clubs, superstores, or supercenters, primarily engaged in retailing a general line of groceries, including a significant amount and variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meats, and other perishable groceries, in combination with a general line of new merchandise, such as apparel, furniture, and appliances; establishments primarily engaged in retailing new goods in general merchandise stores (except department stores, warehouse clubs, superstores, and supercenters). These establishments retail a general line of new merchandise, such as apparel, automotive parts, dry goods, hardware, housewares or home furnishings, and other lines in limited amounts, with none of the lines predominating. Illustrative Examples: Dollar stores, General merchandise catalog showrooms (except catalog mail-order), General merchandise trading posts, General stores, Home and auto supply stores, Variety stores. |
Glass and glass product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) manufacturing flat glass by melting silica sand or cullet or (2) manufacturing both flat glass and laminated glass by melting silica sand or cullet; manufacturing glass by melting silica sand or cullet and making pressed, blown, or shaped glass or glassware (except glass packaging containers); manufacturing glass packaging containers; coating, laminating, tempering, or shaping purchased glass. |
Grain farming | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: growing wheat and/or producing wheat seeds; growing and/or producing corn seeds; growing rice (except wild rice) and/or producing rice seeds; growing a combination of oilseed(s) and grain(s) with no one oilseed (or family of oilseeds) or grain (or family of grains) accounting for one-half of the establishment's agricultural production (value of crops for market). These establishments may produce oilseed(s) and grain(s) seeds and/or grow oilseed(s) and grain(s); growing grains and/or producing grain(s) seeds (except wheat, corn, rice, and oilseed(s) and grain(s) combinations). Illustrative Examples: Barley farming, Sorghum farming, Oat farming, Wild rice farming, Rye farming. |
Grantmaking, giving, and social advocacy organizations | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments known as grantmaking foundations or charitable trusts. Establishments in this industry award grants from trust funds based on a competitive selection process or the preferences of the foundation managers and grantors; or fund a single entity, such as a museum or university. Illustrative Examples: Community foundations, Philanthropic trusts, Corporate foundations, awarding grants, Scholarship trusts, Grantmaking foundations; establishments primarily engaged in raising funds for health related research, such as disease (e.g., heart, cancer, diabetes) prevention, health education, and patient services. Illustrative Examples: Disease awareness fundraising organizations, Health research fundraising organizations, Disease research (e.g., heart, cancer) fundraising organizations, Voluntary health organizations; establishments (except voluntary health organizations) primarily engaged in raising funds for a wide range of social welfare activities, such as educational, scientific, cultural, and health. Illustrative Examples: Community chests, United fund councils, Federated charities, United funds for colleges; establishments primarily engaged in promoting causes associated with human rights either for a broad or specific constituency. Establishments in this industry address issues, such as protecting and promoting the broad constitutional rights and civil liberties of individuals and those suffering from neglect, abuse, or exploitation; promoting the interests of specific groups, such as children, women, senior citizens, or persons with disabilities; improving relations between racial, ethnic, and cultural groups; and promoting voter education and registration. These organizations may solicit contributions and offer memberships to support these causes. Illustrative Examples: Civil liberties organizations, Senior citizens' advocacy organizations, Human rights advocacy organizations, Veterans' rights organizations; establishments primarily engaged in promoting the preservation and protection of the environment and wildlife. Establishments in this industry address issues, such as clean air and water; global warming; conserving and developing natural resources, including land, plant, water, and energy resources; and protecting and preserving wildlife and endangered species. These organizations may solicit contributions and offer memberships to support these causes. Illustrative Examples: Animal rights organizations, Natural resource preservation organizations, Conservation advocacy organizations, Wildlife preservation organizations, Humane societies; establishments primarily engaged in social advocacy (except human rights and environmental protection, conservation, and wildlife preservation). Establishments in this industry address issues, such as peace and international understanding; community action (excluding civic organizations); or advancing social causes, such as firearms safety, drunk driving prevention, or drug abuse awareness. These organizations may solicit contributions and offer memberships to support these causes. Illustrative Examples: Community action advocacy organizations, Substance abuse prevention advocacy organizations, Firearms advocacy organizations, Taxpayers' advocacy organizations, Peace advocacy organizations. |
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: growing mushrooms under cover in mines underground, or in other controlled environments; growing food crops (except mushrooms) under glass or protective cover. Illustrative Examples: Alfalfa sprout farming, grown under cover, Melon farming, grown under cover, Vegetable farming, grown under cover, Hydroponic crop farming, Fruit farming, grown under cover; (1) growing nursery products, nursery stock, shrubbery, bulbs, fruit stock, sod, and so forth, under cover or in open fields and/or (2) growing short rotation woody trees with a growth and harvest cycle of 10 years or less for pulp or tree stock; growing and/or producing floriculture products (e.g., cut flowers and roses, cut cultivated greens, potted flowering and foliage plants, and flower seeds) under cover and in open fields. |
Ground or treated mineral and earth manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in calcining, dead burning, or otherwise processing beyond beneficiation, clays, ceramic and refractory minerals, barite, and miscellaneous nonmetallic minerals. |
Guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing complete guided missiles and space vehicles and/or (2) developing and making prototypes of guided missiles or space vehicles. |
Hardware manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal hardware, such as metal hinges, metal handles, keys, and locks (except coin-operated, time locks). |
Health care structures | Construction | Comprises buildings and structures for hospitals and other medical practices. |
Heating equipment (except warm air furnaces) manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing heating equipment (except electric and warm air furnaces), such as heating boilers, heating stoves, floor and wall furnaces, and wall and baseboard heating units. |
Heavy duty truck manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing heavy duty truck chassis and assembling complete heavy duty trucks, buses, heavy duty motor homes, and other special purpose heavy duty motor vehicles for highway use or (2) manufacturing heavy duty truck chassis only. |
Highways and streets | Construction | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction of highways (including elevated), streets, roads, airport runways, public sidewalks, or bridges. The work performed may include new work, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and repairs. Specialty trade contractors are included in this industry if they are engaged in activities primarily related to highway, street, and bridge construction (e.g., installing guardrails on highways). Illustrative Examples: Airport runway construction, Highway line painting, Causeway construction, Painting traffic lanes or parking lot lines, Culverts, highway, road, and street, construction, Pothole filling, highway, road, street, or bridge, Elevated highway construction, Resurfacing, highway, road, street, or bridge, Guardrail construction, Sign erection, highway, road, street, or bridge. |
Home health care services | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services in the home, along with a range of the following: personal care services; homemaker and companion services; physical therapy; medical social services; medications; medical equipment and supplies; counseling; 24-hour home care; occupation and vocational therapy; dietary and nutritional services; speech therapy; audiology; and high-tech care, such as intravenous therapy. Illustrative Examples: Home health care agencies, Visiting nurse associations, Home infusion therapy services, In-home hospice care services. |
Hospitals | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments known and licensed as general medical and surgical hospitals primarily engaged in providing diagnostic and medical treatment (both surgical and nonsurgical) to inpatients with any of a wide variety of medical conditions. These establishments maintain inpatient beds and provide patients with food services that meet their nutritional requirements. These hospitals have an organized staff of physicians and other medical staff to provide patient care services. These establishments usually provide other services, such as outpatient services, anatomical pathology services, diagnostic X-ray services, clinical laboratory services, operating room services for a variety of procedures, and pharmacy services; establishments known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals primarily engaged in providing diagnostic, medical treatment, and monitoring services for inpatients who suffer from mental illness or substance abuse disorders. The treatment often requires an extended stay in the hospital. These establishments maintain inpatient beds and provide patients with food services that meet their nutritional requirements. They have an organized staff of physicians and other medical staff to provide patient care services. Psychiatric, psychological, and social work services are available at the facility. These hospitals usually provide other services, such as outpatient services, clinical laboratory services, diagnostic X-ray services, and electroencephalograph services; establishments known and licensed as specialty hospitals primarily engaged in providing diagnostic and medical treatment to inpatients with a specific type of disease or medical condition (except psychiatric or substance abuse). Hospitals providing long-term care for the chronically ill and hospitals providing rehabilitation, restorative, and adjustive services to physically challenged or disabled people are included in this industry. These establishments maintain inpatient beds and provide patients with food services that meet their nutritional requirements. They have an organized staff of physicians and other medical staff to provide patient care services. These hospitals may provide other services, such as outpatient services, diagnostic X-ray services, clinical laboratory services, operating room services, physical therapy services, educational and vocational services, and psychological and social work services. |
Household cooking appliance manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing household-type cooking appliances, household-type laundry equipment, household-type refrigerators, upright and chest freezers, and other electrical and nonelectrical major household-type appliances, such as dishwashers, water heaters, and garbage disposal units. |
Household laundry equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing household-type cooking appliances, household-type laundry equipment, household-type refrigerators, upright and chest freezers, and other electrical and nonelectrical major household-type appliances, such as dishwashers, water heaters, and garbage disposal units. |
Household refrigerator and home freezer manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing household-type cooking appliances, household-type laundry equipment, household-type refrigerators, upright and chest freezers, and other electrical and nonelectrical major household-type appliances, such as dishwashers, water heaters, and garbage disposal units. |
Housing | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in acting as lessors of buildings used as residences or dwellings, such as single-family homes, apartment buildings, and town homes. Included in this industry are owner-lessors and establishments renting real estate and then acting as lessors in subleasing it to others. The establishments in this industry may manage the property themselves or have another establishment manage it for them; establishments primarily engaged in managing residential real estate for others. |
Ice cream and frozen dessert manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ice cream, frozen yogurts, frozen ices, sherbets, frozen tofu, and other frozen desserts (except bakery products). |
In-vitro diagnostic substance manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing in-vitro (i.e., not taken internally) diagnostic substances, such as chemical, biological, or radioactive substances. The substances are used for diagnostic tests that are performed in test tubes, petri dishes, machines, and other diagnostic test-type devices. |
Incineration of waste: Food | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Incineration of waste: Metals and Inert materials | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Incineration of waste: Oil/Hazardous waste | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Incineration of waste: Paper | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Incineration of waste: Plastic | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Incineration of waste: Textiles | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Incineration of waste: Wood | Other community, social and personal service activities | Collection and transportation of waste materials. |
Independent artists, writers, and performers | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises independent (i.e., freelance) individuals primarily engaged in performing in artistic productions, in creating artistic and cultural works or productions, or in providing technical expertise necessary for these productions. This industry also includes athletes and other celebrities exclusively engaged in endorsing products and making speeches or public appearances for which they receive a fee. Illustrative Examples: Independent actors or actresses, Independent producers, Independent art restorers, Independent recording technicians, Independent artists (except musical, commercial, or medical), Independent speakers, Independent cartoonists, Independent theatrical costume designers, Independent dancers, Independent theatrical lighting technicians, Independent journalists, Independent technical writers. |
Individual and family services | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance services for children and youth. These establishments provide for the welfare of children in such areas as adoption and foster care, drug prevention, life skills training, and positive social development. Illustrative Examples: Adoption agencies, Youth centers (except recreational only), Child guidance organizations, Youth self-help organizations, Foster care placement services; establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance services to improve the quality of life for the elderly, persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or persons with disabilities. These establishments provide for the welfare of these individuals in such areas as day care, non-medical home care or homemaker services, social activities, group support, and companionship; establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential individual and family social assistance services (except those specifically directed toward children, the elderly, persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or persons with disabilities). Illustrative Examples: Community action services agencies, Marriage counseling services (except by offices of mental health practitioners), Crisis intervention centers, Multi-purpose social services centers, Family social services agencies, Self-help organizations (except for disabled persons, the elderly, persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities), Family welfare services, Suicide crisis centers, Hotline centers, Telephone counseling services. |
Industrial gas manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial organic and inorganic gases in compressed, liquid, and solid forms. |
Industrial mold manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial molds for casting metals or forming other materials, such as plastics, glass, or rubber. |
Industrial process furnace and oven manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial process ovens, induction and dielectric heating equipment, and kilns (except cement, chemical, wood). Included in this industry are establishments manufacturing laboratory furnaces and ovens. |
Industrial process variable instruments manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing instruments and related devices for measuring, displaying, indicating, recording, transmitting, and controlling industrial process variables. These instruments measure, display or control (monitor, analyze, and so forth) industrial process variables, such as temperature, humidity, pressure, vacuum, combustion, flow, level, viscosity, density, acidity, concentration, and rotation. |
Institutional furniture manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing institutional-type furniture (e.g., library, school, theater, and church furniture). Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing general purpose hospital, laboratory, and dental furniture (e.g., tables, stools, and benches). The furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown). |
Insurance agencies, brokerages, and related activities | Finance and Insurance | Comprises: acting as agents (i.e., brokers) in selling annuities and insurance policies; investigating, appraising, and settling insurance claims; providing third party administration services of insurance and pension funds, such as claims processing and other administrative services to insurance carriers, employee benefit plans, and self-insurance funds; providing insurance services on a contract or fee basis (except insurance agencies and brokerages, claims adjusting, and third party administration). Insurance advisory services, insurance actuarial services, and insurance ratemaking services are included in this industry. |
Insurance carriers | Finance and Insurance | Comprises: initially underwriting (i.e., assuming the risk and assigning premiums) annuities and life insurance policies, disability income insurance policies, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance policies; initially underwriting (i.e., assuming the risk and assigning premiums) health and medical insurance policies. Group hospitalization plans and HMO establishments that provide health and medical insurance policies without providing health care services are included in this industry; initially underwriting (i.e., assuming the risk and assigning premiums) insurance policies that protect policyholders against losses that may occur as a result of property damage or liability. Illustrative Examples: Automobile insurance carriers, direct, Malpractice insurance carriers, direct, Fidelity insurance carriers, direct, Mortgage guaranty insurance carriers, direct, Homeowners’ insurance carriers, direct, Surety insurance carriers, direct, Liability insurance carriers, direct; initially underwriting (i.e., assuming the risk and assigning premiums) insurance policies to protect the owners of real estate or real estate creditors against loss sustained by reason of any title defect to real property; initially underwriting (e.g., assuming the risk, assigning premiums) insurance policies (except life, disability income, accidental death and dismemberment, health and medical, property and casualty, and title insurance policies). Illustrative Examples: Bank deposit insurance carriers, direct, Product warranty insurance carriers, direct, Deposit or share insurance carriers, direct, Warranty insurance carriers (e.g., appliance, automobile, homeowners’, product), direct; assuming all or part of the risk associated with existing insurance policies originally underwritten by other insurance carriers. |
Internet publishing and broadcasting and Web search portals | Information | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) publishing and/or broadcasting content on the Internet exclusively or (2) operating Web sites that use a search engine to generate and maintain extensive databases of Internet addresses and content in an easily searchable format (and known as Web search portals). The publishing and broadcasting establishments in this industry do not provide traditional (non-Internet) versions of the content that they publish or broadcast. They provide textual, audio, and/or video content of general or specific interest on the Internet exclusively. Establishments known as Web search portals often provide additional Internet services, such as email, connections to other Web sites, auctions, news, and other limited content, and serve as a home base for Internet users. Illustrative Examples: Internet book publishers, Internet sports sites, Internet entertainment sites, Internet video broadcast sites, Internet news publishers, Internet periodical publishers, Internet radio stations, Internet search portals, Web search portals, Internet search Web sites, Internet social networking sites. |
Investigation and security services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing investigation and detective services. Illustrative Examples: Fingerprinting services, Private detective services, Polygraph services, Private investigative services; establishments primarily engaged in providing guard and patrol services, such as bodyguard, guard dog, and parking security services; establishments primarily engaged in picking up and delivering money, receipts, or other valuable items. These establishments maintain personnel and equipment to protect such properties while in transit; establishments primarily engaged in (1) selling security alarm systems, such as burglar and fire alarms, along with installation, repair, or monitoring services or (2) remote monitoring of electronic security alarm systems; establishments primarily engaged in (1) selling mechanical or electronic locking devices, safes, and security vaults, along with installation, repair, rebuilding, or adjusting services or (2) installing, repairing, rebuilding, and adjusting mechanical or electronic locking devices, safes, and security vaults. |
Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) direct reduction of iron ore; (2) manufacturing pig iron in molten or solid form; (3) converting pig iron into steel; (4) making steel; (5) making steel and manufacturing shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip, wire); (6) making steel and forming pipe and tube; and (7) manufacturing electrometallurgical ferroalloys. Ferroalloys add critical elements, such as silicon and manganese for carbon steel and chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium, and molybdenum for low- and high-alloy metals. Ferroalloys include iron-rich alloys and more pure forms of elements added during the steel manufacturing process that alter or improve the characteristics of the metal. |
Iron, gold, silver, and other metal ore mining | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises: (1) developing mine sites, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) iron ores and manganiferous ores valued chiefly for their iron content and/or (2) producing sinter iron ore (except iron ore produced in iron and steel mills) and other iron ore agglomerates; developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) ores valued chiefly for their gold content. Establishments primarily engaged in transformation of the gold into bullion or dore bar in combination with mining activities are included in this industry; developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) ores valued chiefly for their silver content. Establishments primarily engaged in transformation of the silver into bullion or dore bar in combination with mining activities are included in this industry; developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) uranium-radium-vanadium ores; developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) metal ores (except iron and manganiferous ores valued for their iron content, gold ore, silver ore, copper, nickel, lead, zinc, and uranium-radium-vanadium ore). Illustrative Examples: Antimony ores mining and/or beneficiating, Rare earth metal ores mining and/or beneficiating, Columbite ores mining and/or beneficiating, Tantalum ores mining and/or beneficiating, Ilmenite ores mining and/or beneficiating, Tungsten ores mining and/or beneficiating, Molybdenum ores mining and/or beneficiating. |
Irradiation apparatus manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing irradiation apparatus and tubes for applications, such as medical diagnostic, medical therapeutic, industrial, research and scientific evaluation. Irradiation can take the form of beta-rays, gamma-rays, X-rays, or other ionizing radiation. |
Jewelry and silverware manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing, engraving, chasing, or etching jewelry; (2) manufacturing, engraving, chasing, or etching metal personal goods (i.e., small articles carried on or about the person, such as compacts or cigarette cases); (3) manufacturing, engraving, chasing, or etching precious metal solid, precious metal clad, or pewter flatware and other hollowware; (4) stamping coins; (5) manufacturing unassembled jewelry parts and stock shop products, such as sheet, wire, and tubing; (6) cutting, slabbing, tumbling, carving, engraving, polishing, or faceting precious or semiprecious stones and gems; (7) recutting, repolishing, and setting gem stones; and (8) drilling, sawing, and peeling cultured and costume pearls. This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing precious solid, precious clad, and precious plated jewelry and personal goods. |
Junior colleges, colleges, universities, and professional schools | Educational Services | Comprises: furnishing academic, or academic and technical, courses and granting associate degrees, certificates, or diplomas below the baccalaureate level. The requirement for admission to an associate or equivalent degree program is at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods; furnishing academic courses and granting degrees at baccalaureate or graduate levels. The requirement for admission is at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods. Illustrative Examples: Colleges (except junior colleges), Theological seminaries offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees, Military academies, college level, Universities, Professional schools (e.g., business administration, dental, law, medical). |
Laminated plastics plate, sheet (except packaging), and shape manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in laminating plastics profile shapes such as plate, sheet (except packaging), and rod. The lamination process generally involves bonding or impregnating profiles with plastics resins and compressing them under heat. |
Landfill of waste: Food | Other community, social and personal service activities | Dumping of waste on land or in water in accordance with regulations. |
Landfill of waste: Paper | Other community, social and personal service activities | Dumping of waste on land or in water in accordance with regulations. |
Landfill of waste: Plastic | Other community, social and personal service activities | Dumping of waste on land or in water in accordance with regulations. |
Landfill of waste: Textiles | Other community, social and personal service activities | Dumping of waste on land or in water in accordance with regulations. |
Landfill of waste: Wood | Other community, social and personal service activities | Dumping of waste on land or in water in accordance with regulations. |
Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing powered lawnmowers, lawn and garden tractors, and other home lawn and garden equipment, such as tillers, shredders, yard vacuums, and leaf blowers. |
Lead, zinc and tin production | Manufacturing | Smelters and refiners of lead, zinc, and tin. |
Leather and allied product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) tanning, currying, and finishing hides and skins; (2) having others process hides and skins on a contract basis; and (3) dyeing or dressing furs. manufacturing footwear (except orthopedic extension footwear). Illustrative Examples: Athletic shoes manufacturing, Ballet slippers manufacturing, Cleated athletic shoes manufacturing, Shoes, children's and infants’ (except orthopedic extension), manufacturing, Shoes, men’s (except orthopedic extension), manufacturing, Shoes, women’s (except orthopedic extension), manufacturing; manufacturing women's handbags and purses of any material (except precious metal); manufacturing leather products (except footwear, handbags, purses, and apparel) from purchased leather or leather substitutes (e.g., fabric, plastics). Illustrative Examples: Billfolds, all materials, manufacturing |
Legal services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: offices of legal practitioners known as lawyers or attorneys (i.e., counselors-at-law) primarily engaged in the practice of law. Establishments in this industry may provide expertise in a range or in specific areas of law, such as criminal law, corporate law, family and estate law, patent law, real estate law, or tax law; establishments (except offices of lawyers and attorneys) primarily engaged in drafting, approving, and executing legal documents, such as real estate transactions, wills, and contracts; and in receiving, indexing, and storing such documents; establishments (except offices of lawyers and attorneys) primarily engaged in one or more of the following activities: (1) researching public land records to gather information relating to real estate titles; (2) preparing documents necessary for the transfer of the title, financing, and settlement; (3) conducting final real estate settlements and closings; and (4) filing legal and other documents relating to the sale of real estate. Real estate settlement offices, title abstract companies, and title search companies are included in this industry; establishments of legal practitioners (except offices of lawyers and attorneys, settlement offices, and title abstract offices). These establishments are primarily engaged in providing specialized legal or paralegal services. Illustrative Examples: Notary public services, Patent agent services (i.e., patent filing and searching services), Paralegal services, Process serving services. |
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in assigning rights to assets, such as patents, trademarks, brand names, and/or franchise agreements, for which a royalty payment or licensing fee is paid to the asset holder. |
Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing complete light trucks and utility vehicles (i.e., body and chassis) or (2) manufacturing light truck and utility vehicle chassis only. Vehicles made include light duty vans, pick-up trucks, minivans, and sport utility vehicles. |
Lighting fixture manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing fixed or portable residential electric lighting fixtures and lamp shades of metal, paper, or textiles. Residential electric lighting fixtures include those for use both inside and outside the residence. Illustrative Examples: Ceiling lighting fixtures, residential, manufacturing, Chandeliers, residential, manufacturing, Table lamps (i.e., lighting fixtures) manufacturing; manufacturing commercial, industrial, and institutional electric lighting fixtures; manufacturing electric lighting fixtures (except residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and vehicular electric lighting fixtures) and nonelectric lighting equipment. Illustrative Examples: Christmas tree lighting sets, electric, manufacturing, Fireplace logs, electric, manufacturing, Flashlights manufacturing |
Lime and gypsum product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing lime from calcitic limestone, dolomitic limestone, or other calcareous materials, such as coral, chalk, and shells. Lime manufacturing establishments may mine, quarry, collect, or purchase the sources of calcium carbonate; manufacturing gypsum products, such as wallboard, plaster, plasterboard, molding, ornamental moldings, statuary, and architectural plaster work. Gypsum product manufacturing establishments may mine, quarry, or purchase gypsum. |
Limited-service restaurants | Accommodation and Food Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing food services (except snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars) where patrons generally order or select items and pay before eating. Food and drink may be consumed on premises, taken out, or delivered to the customer's location. Some establishments in this industry may provide these food services in combination with selling alcoholic beverages. Illustrative Examples: Delicatessen restaurants, Pizza delivery shops, Family restaurants, limited-service, Takeout eating places, Fast-food restaurants, Fast casual restaurants, Takeout sandwich shops, Limited-service pizza parlors. |
Machine shops | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments known as machine shops primarily engaged in machining metal and plastic parts and parts of other composite materials on a job or order basis. Generally machine shop jobs are low volume using machine tools, such as lathes (including computer numerically controlled); automatic screw machines; and machines for boring, grinding, milling, and additive manufacturing. |
Management consulting services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing operating advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations on administrative management issues, such as financial planning and budgeting, equity and asset management, records management, office planning, strategic and organizational planning, site selection, new business start-up, and business process improvement. This industry also includes establishments of general management consultants that provide a full range of administrative, human resource, marketing, process, physical distribution, logistics, or other management consulting services to clients. Illustrative Examples: Administrative management consulting services, Site selection consulting services, Financial management (except investment advice) consulting services, Strategic planning consulting services, General management consulting services; establishments primarily engaged in providing advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations in one or more of the following areas: (1) human resource and personnel policies, practices, and procedures; (2) employee benefits planning, communication, and administration; (3) compensation systems planning; and (4) wage and salary administration. Illustrative Examples: Benefit or compensation consulting services, Employee assessment consulting services, Personnel management consulting services, Human resources consulting services; establishments primarily engaged in providing operating advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations on marketing issues, such as developing marketing objectives and policies, sales forecasting, new product developing and pricing, licensing and franchise planning, and marketing planning and strategy. Illustrative Examples: Customer services management consulting services, New product development consulting services, Marketing management consulting services, Sales management consulting services; establishments primarily engaged in providing operating advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations in: (1) manufacturing operations improvement; (2) productivity improvement; (3) production planning and control; (4) quality assurance and quality control; (5) inventory management; (6) distribution networks; (7) warehouse use, operations, and utilization; (8) transportation and shipment of goods and materials; and (9) materials management and handling. Illustrative Examples: Freight rate or tariff rate consulting services, Productivity improvement consulting services, Inventory planning and control management consulting services, Transportation management consulting services, Manufacturing management consulting services; establishments primarily engaged in providing management consulting services (except administrative and general management consulting; human resources consulting; marketing consulting; or process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting). Establishments providing telecommunications or utilities management consulting services are included in this industry. |
Management of companies and enterprises | Management of Companies and Enterprises | Comprises: legal entities known as bank holding companies primarily engaged in holding the securities of (or other equity interests in) companies and enterprises for the purpose of owning a controlling interest or influencing the management decisions of these firms. The holding companies in this industry do not administer, oversee, and manage other establishments of the company or enterprise whose securities they hold; legal entities known as holding companies (except bank holding) primarily engaged in holding the securities of (or other equity interests in) companies and enterprises for the purpose of owning a controlling interest or influencing the management decisions of these firms. The holding companies in this industry do not administer, oversee, and manage other establishments of the company or enterprise whose securities they hold; establishments (except government establishments) primarily engaged in administering, overseeing, and managing other establishments of the company or enterprise. These establishments normally undertake the strategic or organizational planning and decision-making role of the company or enterprise. Establishments in this industry may hold the securities of the company or enterprise. Illustrative Examples: Centralized administrative offices, Head offices, Corporate offices, Holding companies that manage, District and regional offices, Subsidiary management offices. |
Manufacture of ceramic goods | Manufacturing | Manufacturing of nonstructural nonrefractory ceramic articles, including: |
Manufacture of coke oven products | Manufacturing | This class includes operation of coke ovens chiefly for the production of coke or semicoke from hardcoal and lignite, of retort carbon and residual products such as coal tar or pitch. |
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing blank magnetic and optical recording media, such as blank magnetic tape, blank diskettes, blank optical discs, hard drive media, and blank magnetic tape cassettes; mass reproducing computer software or other prerecorded audio and video material on magnetic or optical media, such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, tapes, or cartridges. These establishments do not generally develop any software or produce any audio or video content. This industry includes establishments that mass reproduce game CDs and cartridges. |
Manufacturing structures | Construction | Comprises establishments primarily responsible for the construction (including new work, additions, alterations, maintenance, and repairs) of industrial buildings (except warehouses). The construction of selected additional structures, whose production processes are similar to those for industrial buildings (e.g., incinerators, cement plants, blast furnaces, and similar nonbuilding structures), is included in this industry. Included in this industry are industrial building general contractors, industrial building for-sale builders, industrial building design-build firms, and industrial building construction management firms. Illustrative Examples: Assembly plant construction, Furnace, industrial plant, construction, Cannery construction, Mine loading and discharging station construction, Cement plant construction, Paper or pulp mill construction, Chemical plant (except petrochemical) construction, Pharmaceutical manufacturing plant construction, Factory construction, Steel mill construction, Food processing plant construction, Waste disposal plant (except sewage treatment) construction |
Marketing research and all other miscellaneous professional, scientific, and technical services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in systematically gathering, recording, tabulating, and presenting marketing and public opinion data. Illustrative Examples: Broadcast media rating services, Political opinion polling services, Marketing analysis or research services, Statistical sampling services, Opinion research services. |
Material handling equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing elevators and moving stairways. Illustrative Examples: |
Meat animals nec | Agriculture, hunting and forestry | Farming of domestic animals specifically for meat production, including beef cattle, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules, or hinnies. |
Mechanical power transmission equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing mechanical power transmission equipment (except motor vehicle and aircraft), such as plain bearings, clutches (except motor vehicle and electromagnetic industrial control), couplings, joints, and drive chains. |
Medical and diagnostic laboratories | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments known as medical laboratories primarily engaged in providing analytic or diagnostic services, including body fluid analysis, generally to the medical profession or to the patient on referral from a health practitioner. Illustrative Examples: Blood analysis laboratories, Medical pathology laboratories, Medical bacteriological laboratories, Medical testing laboratories, Medical forensic laboratories; establishments known as diagnostic imaging centers primarily engaged in producing images of the patient generally on referral from a health practitioner. Illustrative Examples: Computer tomography (CT-scan) centers, Medical radiological laboratories, Dental or medical X-ray laboratories, Ultrasound imaging centers, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) centers. |
Medicinal and botanical manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing uncompounded medicinal chemicals and their derivatives (i.e., generally for use by pharmaceutical preparation manufacturers) and/or (2) grading, grinding, and milling uncompounded botanicals. |
Metal can, box, and other metal container (light gauge) manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing metal cans, lids, and ends; manufacturing metal (light gauge) containers (except cans). Illustrative Examples: Light gauge metal bins manufacturing, Light gauge metal drums manufacturing, Light gauge metal garbage cans manufacturing, Light gauge metal lunch boxes manufacturing, Light gauge metal mailboxes manufacturing, Light gauge metal tool boxes manufacturing, Light gauge metal vats manufacturing, Metal air cargo containers manufacturing, Metal barrels manufacturing, Vacuum bottles and jugs manufacturing |
Metal cutting and forming machine tool manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing accessories and attachments for metal cutting and metal forming machine tools. Illustrative Examples: Knives and bits for metalworking lathes, planers, and shapers manufacturing, Measuring attachments (e.g., sine bars) for machine tool manufacturing, Metalworking drill bits manufacturing, Taps and dies (i.e., machine tool accessories) manufacturing; (1) manufacturing metal cutting machine tools (except handtools) and/or (2) manufacturing metal forming machine tools (except handtools), such as punching, sheering, bending, forming, pressing, forging and die-casting machines. Illustrative Examples: Bending and forming machines, metalworking, manufacturing, Buffing and polishing machines, metalworking, manufacturing, Drilling machines, metalworking, manufacturing, Grinding machines, metalworking, manufacturing, Home workshop metal cutting machine tools (except handtools, welding equipment) manufacturing, Metalworking lathes manufacturing, Milling machines, metalworking, manufacturing, Stamping machines, metalworking, manufacturing. |
Metal tank (heavy gauge) manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in cutting, forming, and joining heavy gauge metal to manufacture tanks, vessels, and other containers. |
Military armored vehicle, tank, and tank component manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing complete military armored vehicles, combat tanks, specialized components for combat tanks, and self-propelled weapons. |
Millwork | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing window and door units, sash, window and door frames, and doors from wood or wood clad with metal or plastics; one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing dimension lumber from purchased lumber; (2) manufacturing dimension stock (i.e., shapes) or cut stock; (3) resawing the output of sawmills; and (4) planing purchased lumber. These establishments generally use woodworking machinery, such as jointers, planers, lathes, and routers to shape wood; manufacturing millwork (except wood windows, wood doors, and cut stock). Illustrative Examples: Clear and finger joint wood moldings manufacturing, Decorative wood moldings (e.g., base, chair rail, crown, shoe) manufacturing, Ornamental woodwork (e.g., cornices, mantel) manufacturing, |
Mineral wool manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing mineral wool and mineral wool (i.e., fiberglass) insulation products made of such siliceous materials as rock, slag, and glass or combinations thereof. |
Mining and oil and gas field machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) manufacturing underground mining machinery and equipment, such as coal breakers, mining cars, core drills, coal cutters, and rock drills, and (2) manufacturing mineral beneficiating machinery and equipment used in surface or underground mines; (1) manufacturing oil and gas field machinery and equipment, such as oil and gas field drilling machinery and equipment; oil and gas field production machinery and equipment; and oil and gas field derricks, and (2) manufacturing water well drilling machinery. |
Mining of aluminium ores and concentrates | Mining and quarrying | Extraction of aluminiumbearing ores and concentrates from the earth's crust. |
Mining of copper ores and concentrates | Mining and quarrying | Extraction of copperbearing ores from the earth's crust. |
Mining of iron ores | Mining and quarrying | This class includes mining of ores valued chiefly for iron content such as hematite, magnetite, limonite, siderite or taconite. |
Mining of lead, zinc and tin ores and concentrates | Mining and quarrying | Extraction of lead, zinc, and tinbearing ores and concentrates from the earth's crust. |
Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores and concentrates | Mining and quarrying | Extraction of other nonferrous metalbearing ores and concentrates from the earth's crust. |
Mining of uranium and thorium ores | Mining and quarrying | This class includes mining of ores valued chiefly for uranium or thorium, e.g., pitchblende. |
Miscellaneous nonmetallic mineral products | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nonmetallic mineral products (except pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixtures; clay building materials and refractories; glass and glass products; cement; ready-mix concrete; concrete products; lime; gypsum products; abrasive products; cut stone and stone products; ground and treated minerals and earth; and mineral wool). Illustrative Examples: Dry mix concrete manufacturing, Mica products manufacturing, Manmade and engineered proppants (e.g., resin-coated sand, ceramic materials) manufacturing, Stucco and stucco products manufacturing, Synthetic stones, for gem stones and industrial use, manufacturing |
Monetary authorities and depository credit intermediation | Finance and Insurance | Comprises: performing central banking functions, such as issuing currency, managing the Nation's money supply and international reserves, holding deposits that represent the reserves of other banks and other central banks, and acting as a fiscal agent for the central government; accepting demand and other deposits and making commercial, industrial, and consumer loans. Commercial banks and branches of foreign banks are included in this industry; accepting time deposits, making mortgage and real estate loans, and investing in high-grade securities. Savings and loan associations and savings banks are included in this industry; accepting members' share deposits in cooperatives that are organized to offer consumer loans to their members; accepting deposits and lending funds (except commercial banking, savings institutions, and credit unions). Establishments known as industrial banks or Morris Plans and primarily engaged in accepting deposits, and private banks (i.e., unincorporated banks) are included in this industry; arranging loans by bringing borrowers and lenders together on a commission or fee basis; providing one or more of the following: (1) financial transaction processing (except central bank); (2) reserve and liquidity services (except central bank); and/or (3) check or other financial instrument clearinghouse services (except central bank). Illustrative Examples: Automated clearinghouses, bank or check (except central bank), Credit card processing services, Check clearing services (except central bank), Electronic funds transfer services; facilitating credit intermediation (except mortgage and loan brokerage; and financial transactions processing, reserve, and clearinghouse activities). Illustrative Examples: Check cashing services, Money order issuance services, Loan servicing, Travelers' check issuance services, Money transmission services, Payday lending services. |
Motion picture and video industries | Information | Comprises: producing, or producing and distributing motion pictures, videos, television programs, or television commercials; acquiring distribution rights and distributing film and video productions to motion picture theaters, television networks and stations, and exhibitors; operating motion picture theaters (except drive-ins) and/or exhibiting motion pictures or videos at film festivals, and so forth; operating drive-in motion picture theaters; providing specialized motion picture or video postproduction services, such as editing, film/tape transfers, subtitling, credits, closed captioning, and animation and special effects; providing motion picture and video services (except motion picture and video production, distribution, exhibition, and teleproduction and other postproduction services). Illustrative Examples: Motion picture film laboratories, Stock footage film libraries, Film preservation services. |
Motor and generator manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electric motors (except internal combustion engine starting motors), power generators (except battery charging alternators for internal combustion engines), and motor generator sets (except turbine generator set units). This industry includes establishments rewinding armatures on a factory basis. |
Motor home manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing motor homes on purchased chassis and/or (2) manufacturing conversion vans on an assembly line basis. Motor homes are units where the motor and the living quarters are integrated in the same unit. |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | Retail Trade | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in retailing new automobiles and light trucks, such as sport utility vehicles, and passenger and cargo vans, or retailing these new vehicles in combination with activities, such as repair services, retailing used cars, and selling replacement parts and accessories. Illustrative Examples: Automobile dealers, new only, or new and used, Light utility truck dealers, new only, or new and used; establishments primarily engaged in retailing used automobiles and light trucks, such as sport utility vehicles, and passenger and cargo vans. Illustrative Examples: Antique auto dealers, Light truck dealers, used only, Automobile dealers, used only; establishments primarily engaged in retailing new and/or used recreational vehicles commonly referred to as RVs or retailing these new vehicles in combination with activities, such as repair services and selling replacement parts and accessories. Illustrative Examples: Motor home dealers, Recreational vehicle (RV) parts and accessories stores, Recreational vehicle (RV) dealers, Travel trailer dealers; establishments primarily engaged in retailing new and/or used motorcycles, motor scooters, motorbikes, mopeds, off-road all-terrain vehicles (ATV), personal watercraft, utility trailers, and other motor vehicles (except automobiles, light trucks, recreational vehicles, and boats) or retailing these new vehicles in combination with activities, such as repair services and selling replacement parts and accessories. Illustrative Examples: All-terrain vehicle (ATV) dealers, Motorcycle dealers, Moped dealers, Motorcycle parts and accessories dealers, Personal watercraft dealers, Aircraft dealers, Snowmobile dealers, Powered golf cart dealers, Utility trailer dealers; one or more of the following: (1) establishments known as automotive supply stores primarily engaged in retailing new, used, and/or rebuilt automotive parts and accessories; (2) automotive supply stores that are primarily engaged in both retailing automotive parts and accessories and repairing automobiles; and (3) establishments primarily engaged in retailing and installing automotive accessories. Illustrative Examples: Automotive parts and supply stores, Truck cap stores, Automotive stereo stores, Used automotive parts stores, Speed shops; establishments primarily engaged in retailing new and/or used tires and tubes or retailing new tires in combination with automotive repair services. |
Motor vehicle body manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing truck and bus bodies and cabs and automobile bodies. The products made may be sold separately or may be assembled on purchased chassis and sold as complete vehicles. |
Motor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and/or rebuilding electrical and electronic equipment for motor vehicles and internal combustion engines. The products made can be used for all types of transportation equipment (i.e., aircraft, automobiles, trucks, trains, ships) or stationary internal combustion engine applications. Illustrative Examples: Alternators and generators for internal combustion engines manufacturing, Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing, Coils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing, Distributors for internal combustion engines manufacturing, Electrical control chips (modules), motor vehicle, manufacturing, Electrical ignition cable sets for internal combustion engines manufacturing, Generators for internal combustion engines manufacturing, Ignition wiring harness for internal combustion engines manufacturing, Instrument control panels (i.e., assembling purchased gauges), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Spark plugs for internal combustion engines manufacturing, Windshield washer pumps, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing. |
Motor vehicle gasoline engine and engine parts manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing and/or rebuilding motor vehicle gasoline engines and engine parts and/or (2) manufacturing and/or rebuilding carburetors, pistons, piston rings, and engine valves, whether or not for vehicular use. Illustrative Examples: Carburetors, all types, manufacturing, Crankshaft assemblies, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing, |
Motor vehicle metal stamping | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing motor vehicle stampings, such as fenders, tops, body parts, trim, and molding. |
Motor vehicle seating and interior trim manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing motor vehicle seating, seats, seat frames, seat belts, and interior trimmings. |
Motor vehicle steering, suspension component (except spring), and brake systems manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing and/or rebuilding motor vehicle steering mechanisms and suspension components (except springs). Illustrative Examples: Power steering pumps manufacturing, Rack and pinion steering assemblies manufacturing, Shock absorbers, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Steering columns, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Steering wheels, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Struts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing; manufacturing and/or rebuilding motor vehicle brake systems and related components. Illustrative Examples: Brake cylinders, master and wheel, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Brake drums, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Brake hose assemblies manufacturing, Brake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Calipers, brake, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing. |
Motor vehicle transmission and power train parts manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and/or rebuilding motor vehicle transmissions and power train parts. Illustrative Examples: Automatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Constant velocity joints, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Differential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Torque converters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Universal joints, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing. |
Motorcycle, bicycle, and parts manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles and similar equipment, and parts. |
Multifamily residential structures | Construction | Comprises general contractor establishments primarily responsible for the construction of new multifamily residential housing units (e.g., high-rise, garden, town house apartments, and condominiums where each unit is not separated from its neighbors by a ground-to-roof wall). Multifamily design-build firms and multifamily housing construction management firms acting as general contractors are included in this industry. |
Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of objects of historical, cultural, and/or educational value. Illustrative Examples: Art galleries (except retail), Planetariums, Art museums, Science or technology museums, Halls of fame, Wax museums; establishments primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of sites, buildings, forts, or communities that describe events or persons of particular historical interest. Archeological sites, battlefields, historical ships, and pioneer villages are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of live plant and animal life displays. Illustrative Examples: Aquariums, Wild animal parks,Arboreta, Zoological gardens, Aviaries; establishments primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of natural areas or settings. Illustrative Examples: Bird or wildlife sanctuaries, Natural wonder tourist attractions (e.g., caverns, waterfalls), Conservation areas, Nature centers or preserves, National parks. |
Natural gas distribution | Utilities | Comprises: (1) establishments primarily engaged in operating gas distribution systems (e.g., mains, meters); (2) establishments known as gas marketers that buy gas from the well and sell it to a distribution system; (3) establishments known as gas brokers or agents that arrange the sale of gas over gas distribution systems operated by others; and (4) establishments primarily engaged in transmitting and distributing gas to final consumers. |
News syndicates, libraries, archives and all other information services | Information | Comprises: supplying information, such as news reports, articles, pictures, and features, to the news media; providing library or archive services. These establishments are engaged in maintaining collections of documents (e.g., books, journals, newspapers, and music) and facilitating the use of such documents (recorded information regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as required to meet the informational, research, educational, or recreational needs of their user. These establishments may also acquire, research, store, preserve, and generally make accessible to the public historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audiovisual material, and other archival material of historical interest. All or portions of these collections may be accessible electronically. |
Newspaper publishers | Information | Comprises establishments known as newspaper publishers. Establishments in Carry out operations necessary for producing and distributing newspapers, including gathering news; writing news columns, feature stories, and editorials; and selling and preparing advertisements. These establishments may publish newspapers in print or electronic form. |
Nondepository credit intermediation and related activities | Finance and Insurance | Comprises: providing credit by issuing credit cards. Credit card issuance provides the funds required to purchase goods and services in return for payment of the full balance or payments on an installment basis. Credit card banks are included in this industry; sales financing or sales financing in combination with leasing. Sales financing establishments are primarily engaged in lending money for the purpose of providing collateralized goods through a contractual installment sales agreement, either directly from or through arrangements with dealers; making unsecured cash loans to consumers. Illustrative Examples: Finance companies (i.e., unsecured cash loans), Personal credit institutions (i.e., unsecured cash loans), Loan companies (i.e., consumer, personal, student, small), Student loan companies; lending funds with real estate as collateral. Illustrative Examples: Home equity credit lending, Mortgage companies, Mortgage banking (i.e., nondepository mortgage lending); providing one or more of the following: (1) working capital funds to U.S. exporters; (2) lending funds to foreign buyers of U.S. goods; and/or (3) lending funds to domestic buyers of imported goods. Illustrative Examples: Agreement corporations (i.e., international trade financing), Export-Import banks, Edge Act corporations (i.e., international trade financing), Trade banks (i.e., international trade financing); buying, pooling, and repackaging loans for sale to others on the secondary market. Illustrative Examples: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA); providing nondepository credit (except credit card issuing, sales financing, consumer lending, real estate credit, international trade financing, and secondary market financing). Examples of types of lending in this industry are short-term inventory credit, agricultural lending (except real estate and sales financing), and consumer cash lending secured by personal property. Illustrative Examples: Commodity Credit Corporation, Morris Plans (i.e., known as), nondepository, Factoring accounts receivable, Pawnshops, Industrial banks (i.e., known as), nondepository. |
Nonferrous metal (except copper and aluminum) rolling, drawing, extruding and alloying | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) rolling, drawing, or extruding shapes (e.g., bar, plate, sheet, strip, tube) from purchased nonferrous metals and/or (2) recovering nonferrous metals from scrap and rolling, drawing, and/or extruding shapes (e.g., bar, plate, sheet, strip, tube) in integrated mills; (1) alloying purchased nonferrous metals and/or (2) recovering nonferrous metals from scrap. Establishments in this industry make primary forms (e.g., bar, billet, bloom, cake, ingot, slab, slug, wire) using smelting or refining processes. |
Nonferrous metal foundries | Manufacturing | Comprises: introducing molten nonferrous metal, under high pressure, into molds or dies to make nonferrous metal die-castings. Establishments in this industry purchase nonferrous metals made in other establishments; pouring molten aluminum into molds to manufacture aluminum castings (except nonferrous die-castings). Establishments in this industry purchase aluminum made in other establishments; pouring molten nonferrous metals (except aluminum) into molds to manufacture nonferrous castings (except nonferrous die-castings and aluminum castings). Establishments in this industry purchase nonferrous metals, such as copper, nickel, lead, and zinc, made in other establishments. |
Nonresidential maintenance and repair | Construction | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing nonresidential related equipment. |
Nonupholstered wood household furniture manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nonupholstered wood household-type furniture and freestanding cabinets (except television, stereo, and sewing machine cabinets). The furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown).. |
Nursing and community care facilities | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing inpatient nursing and rehabilitative services. The care is generally provided for an extended period of time to individuals requiring nursing care. These establishments have a permanent core staff of registered or licensed practical nurses who, along with other staff, provide nursing and continuous personal care services. Illustrative Examples: Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric), Nursing homes, Assisted living facilities for the elderly with nursing care, Rest homes with nursing care, Inpatient care hospices. |
Office administrative services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing a range of day-to-day office administrative services, such as financial planning; billing and recordkeeping; personnel; and physical distribution and logistics, for others on a contract or fee basis. These establishments do not provide operating staff to carry out the complete operations of a business. |
Office furniture and custom architectural woodwork and millwork manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing wood office-type furniture. The furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown); manufacturing custom designed interiors consisting of architectural woodwork and fixtures utilizing wood, wood products, and plastics laminates. All of the industry output is made to individual order on a job shop basis and requires skilled craftsmen as a labor input. A job might include custom manufacturing of display fixtures, gondolas, wall shelving units, entrance and window architectural detail, sales and reception counters, wall paneling, and matching furniture; manufacturing nonwood office-type furniture. The furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown). |
Office machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing commercial and service industry equipment (except optical instruments and lenses, and photographic and photocopying equipment). Illustrative Examples:Calculators manufacturing, Carnival and amusement park rides manufacturing, Car washing machinery manufacturing, Commercial-type coffee makers and urns manufacturing, Commercial-type cooking equipment (i.e., fryers, microwave ovens, ovens, ranges) manufacturing , Industrial and commercial-type vacuum cleaners manufacturing, Laundry machinery and equipment (except household-type) manufacturing, Mechanical carpet sweepers manufacturing, Motor vehicle alignment equipment manufacturing, Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing, Teaching machines (e.g., flight simulators) manufacturing, Vending machines manufacturing, Water treatment equipment manufacturing. |
Office supplies (except paper) manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing office supplies. Examples of products made by these establishments are pens, pencils, felt tip markers, crayons, chalk, pencil sharpeners, staplers, modeling clay, hand operated stamps, stamp pads, stencils, carbon paper, and inked ribbons. |
Offices of dentists | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises establishments of health practitioners having the degree of D.M.D. (Doctor of Dental Medicine), D.D.S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery), or D.D.Sc. (Doctor of Dental Science) primarily engaged in the independent practice of general or specialized dentistry or dental surgery. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers. They can provide either comprehensive preventive, cosmetic, or emergency care, or specialize in a single field of dentistry. |
Offices of other health practitioners | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments of health practitioners having the degree of D.C. (Doctor of Chiropractic) primarily engaged in the independent practice of chiropractic. These practitioners provide diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of neuromusculoskeletal and related disorders through the manipulation and adjustment of the spinal column and extremities, and operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers; establishments of health practitioners having the degree of O.D. (Doctor of Optometry) primarily engaged in the independent practice of optometry. These practitioners examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases and disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as well as diagnose related systemic conditions. Offices of optometrists prescribe and/or provide eyeglasses, contact lenses, low vision aids, and vision therapy. They operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers, and may also provide the same services as opticians, such as selling and fitting prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses; establishments of independent mental health practitioners (except physicians) primarily engaged in (1) the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and/or (2) the diagnosis and treatment of individual or group social dysfunction brought about by such causes as mental illness, alcohol and substance abuse, physical and emotional trauma, or stress. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers; establishments of independent health practitioners primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) providing physical therapy services to patients who have impairments, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical functions and health status resulting from injury, disease or other causes, or who require prevention, wellness or fitness services; (2) planning and administering educational, recreational, and social activities designed to help patients or individuals with disabilities regain physical or mental functioning or adapt to their disabilities; and (3) diagnosing and treating speech, language, or hearing problems. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers. Illustrative Examples: Audiologists' offices, Recreational (e.g., art, dance, music) therapists' offices, Industrial therapists' offices, Speech pathologists' offices, Occupational therapists' offices, Physical therapists' offices; establishments of health practitioners having the degree of D.P.M. (Doctor of Podiatric Medicine) primarily engaged in the independent practice of podiatry. These practitioners diagnose and treat diseases and deformities of the foot and operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers; establishments of independent health practitioners (except physicians; dentists; chiropractors; optometrists; mental health specialists; physical, occupational, and speech therapists; audiologists; and podiatrists). These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers. Illustrative Examples: Acupuncturists' (except MDs or DOs) offices, Hypnotherapists' offices, Dental hygienists' offices, Inhalation or respiratory therapists' offices, Denturists' offices, Midwives' offices, Dietitians' offices, Naturopaths' offices, Homeopaths' offices, Registered or licensed practical nurses' offices. |
Offices of physicians | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments of health practitioners having the degree of M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) or D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathy) primarily engaged in the independent practice of general or specialized medicine (except psychiatry or psychoanalysis) or surgery. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers; establishments of health practitioners having the degree of M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) or D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathy) primarily engaged in the independent practice of psychiatry or psychoanalysis. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centers, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or HMO medical centers. |
Oil and gas extraction | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises: (1) the exploration, development, and/or the production of natural gas from wells in which the hydrocarbons will initially flow or can be produced using normal or enhanced drilling and extraction techniques or (2) the recovery of liquid hydrocarbons from oil and gas field gases. Establishments primarily engaged in sulfur recovery from natural gas are included in this industry. |
Oilseed farming | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: growing soybeans and/or producing soybean seeds; growing fibrous oilseed producing plants and/or producing oilseed seeds, such as sunflower, safflower, flax, rape, canola, and sesame; growing dry peas, beans, and/or lentils. |
Ophthalmic goods manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing ophthalmic goods. Examples of products made by these establishments are prescription eyeglasses (except manufactured in a retail setting), contact lenses, sunglasses, eyeglass frames, reading glasses made to standard powers, and protective eyewear. |
Optical instrument and lens manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing optical instruments and lenses, such as binoculars, microscopes (except electron, proton), telescopes, prisms, and lenses (except ophthalmic); (2) coating or polishing lenses (except ophthalmic); and (3) mounting lenses (except ophthalmic). |
Ornamental and architectural metal products manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing metal framed windows (i.e., typically using purchased glass) and metal doors. Examples of products made by these establishments are metal door frames; metal framed window and door screens; and metal molding and trim (except automotive); manufacturing sheet metal work (except stampings); manufacturing ornamental and architectural metal work, such as staircases, metal open steel flooring, fire escapes, railings, and scaffolding. |
Other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing aircraft parts or auxiliary equipment (except engines and aircraft fluid power subassemblies) and/or (2) developing and making prototypes of aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment. Auxiliary equipment includes such items as crop dusting apparatus, armament racks, inflight refueling equipment, and external fuel tanks. |
Other ambulatory health care services | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing transportation of patients by ground or air, along with medical care. These services are often provided during a medical emergency but are not restricted to emergencies. The vehicles are equipped with lifesaving equipment operated by medically trained personnel; establishments primarily engaged in collecting, storing, and distributing blood and blood products and storing and distributing body organs; establishments primarily engaged in providing ambulatory health care services (except offices of physicians, dentists, and other health practitioners; outpatient care centers; medical and diagnostic laboratories; home health care providers; ambulances; and blood and organ banks). Illustrative Examples: Health screening services (except by offices of health practitioners), Physical fitness evaluation services (except by offices of health practitioners), Hearing testing services (except by offices of audiologists), Smoking cessation programs, Pacemaker monitoring services. |
Other amusement and recreation industries | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises: (1) establishments primarily engaged in operating golf courses (except miniature) and (2) establishments primarily engaged in operating golf courses, along with dining facilities and other recreational facilities that are known as country clubs. These establishments often provide food and beverage services, equipment rental services, and golf instruction services; establishments engaged in (1) operating downhill, cross country, or related skiing areas and/or (2) operating equipment, such as ski lifts and tows. These establishments often provide food and beverage services, equipment rental services, and ski instruction services. Four season resorts without accommodations are included in this industry; establishments, commonly known as marinas, engaged in operating docking and/or storage facilities for pleasure craft owners, with or without one or more related activities, such as retailing fuel and marine supplies; and repairing, maintaining, or renting pleasure boats; establishments primarily engaged in operating fitness and recreational sports facilities featuring exercise and other active physical fitness conditioning or recreational sports activities, such as swimming, skating, or racquet sports. Illustrative Examples: Aerobic dance or exercise centers, Ice or roller skating rinks, Gymnasiums, Physical fitness centers, Handball, racquetball, or tennis club facilities, Swimming or wave pools; establishments engaged in operating bowling centers. These establishments often provide food and beverage services; establishments (except amusement parks and arcades; gambling industries; golf courses and country clubs; skiing facilities; marinas; fitness and recreational sports centers; and bowling centers) primarily engaged in providing recreational and amusement services. Illustrative Examples: Amusement ride or coin-operated nongambling amusement device concession operators (i.e., supplying and servicing in others’ facilities), Miniature golf courses, Archery or shooting ranges, Recreational day camps (except instructional), Billiard or pool parlors, Recreational or youth sports teams, Boating clubs (without marinas), Recreational sports clubs (i.e., sports teams) not operating sports facilities, Dance halls, Riding stables. |
Other animal food manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing animal food (except dog and cat) from ingredients, such as grains, oilseed mill products, and meat products. |
Other basic inorganic chemical manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing basic inorganic chemicals (except industrial gases and synthetic dyes and pigments). Illustrative Examples: Alkalies manufacturing, Aluminum compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing, Carbides (e.g., baron, calcium, silicon, tungsten) manufacturing, Carbon black manufacturing, Chlorine manufacturing, Hydrochloric acid manufacturing, Potassium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing, Radioactive isotopes manufacturing, Sulfides and sulfites manufacturing, Sulfuric acid manufacturing. |
Other basic organic chemical manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing nonpotable ethyl alcohol; one or more of the following: (1) distilling wood or gum into products, such as tall oil and wood distillates; (2) distilling coal tars; (3) manufacturing wood or gum chemicals, such as naval stores, natural tanning materials, charcoal briquettes, and charcoal (except activated); and (4) manufacturing cyclic crudes or cyclic intermediates (i.e., hydrocarbons, except aromatic petrochemicals) from refined petroleum or natural gas; one or more of the following: (1) distilling wood or gum into products, such as tall oil and wood distillates; (2) distilling coal tars; (3) manufacturing wood or gum chemicals, such as naval stores, natural tanning materials, charcoal briquettes, and charcoal (except activated); and (4) manufacturing cyclic crudes or cyclic intermediates (i.e., hydrocarbons, except aromatic petrochemicals) from refined petroleum or natural gas; manufacturing basic organic chemical products (except aromatic petrochemicals, industrial gases, synthetic organic dyes and pigments, gum and wood chemicals, cyclic crudes and intermediates, and ethyl alcohol). Illustrative Examples: Biodiesel fuels not made in petroleum refineries and not blended with petroleum, Calcium organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing, Carbon organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing, Enzyme proteins (i.e., basic synthetic chemicals) (except pharmaceutical use) manufacturing, Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing, Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing, Plasticizers (i.e., basic synthetic chemicals) manufacturing, Silicone (except resins) manufacturing, Synthetic sweeteners (i.e., sweetening agents) manufacturing |
Other communications equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing communications equipment (except telephone apparatus, radio and television broadcast equipment, and wireless communications equipment). Illustrative Examples: Fire detection and alarm systems manufacturing, Intercom systems and equipment manufacturing, Signals (e.g., highway, pedestrian, railway, traffic) manufacturing, Video-based stadium displays manufacturing. |
Other computer related services, including facilities management | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing on-site management and operation of clients' computer systems and/or data processing facilities. Establishments providing computer systems or data processing facilities support services are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in providing computer related services (except custom programming, systems integration design, and facilities management services). Establishments providing computer disaster recovery services or software installation services are included in this industry. |
Other concrete product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing concrete products (except block, brick, and pipe). |
Other crop farming | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: growing tobacco; growing cotton; growing sugarcane; growing hay, alfalfa, clover, and/or mixed hay; growing sugar beets; growing peanuts; one of the following: (1) growing crops (except oilseeds and/or grains; vegetables and/or melons; fruits and/or tree nuts; greenhouse, nursery, and/or floriculture products; tobacco; cotton; sugarcane; hay; sugar beets; or peanuts); (2) growing a combination of crops (except a combination of oilseed(s) and grain(s); and a combination of fruit(s) and tree nut(s)) with no one crop or family of crops accounting for one-half of the establishment's agricultural production (i.e., value of crops for market); or (3) gathering tea or maple sap. Illustrative Examples: Agave farming, Mint farming, General combination crop farming (except oilseed and grain; vegetables and melons; fruit and tree nut combinations), Hay seed farming, Grass seed farming, Hop farming, Spice farming |
Other educational services | Educational Services | Comprises: offering courses in office procedures and secretarial and stenographic skills and may offer courses in basic office skills, such as word processing. In addition, these establishments may offer such classes as office machine operation, reception, communications, and other skills designed for individuals pursuing a clerical or secretarial career. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods; conducting computer training (except computer repair), such as computer programming, software packages, computerized business systems, computer electronics technology, computer operations, and local area network management. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods; offering an array of short duration courses and seminars for management and professional development. Training for career development may be provided directly to individuals or through employers' training programs, and courses may be customized or modified to meet the special needs of customers. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods; offering training in barbering, hair styling, or the cosmetic arts, such as makeup or skin care. These schools provide job-specific certification; offering aviation and flight training. These establishments may offer vocational training, recreational training, or both; offering apprenticeship training programs. These programs involve applied training as well as course work; offering job or career vocational or technical courses (except cosmetology and barber training, aviation and flight training, and apprenticeship training). The curriculums offered by these schools are highly structured and specialized and lead to job-specific certification. Illustrative Examples: Bartending schools, Modeling schools, Broadcasting schools, Real estate schools, Computer repair training, Truck driving schools, Graphic arts schools, Specialized military training (except flight instruction, academies, and basic training); offering instruction in the arts, including dance, art, drama, and music. Illustrative Examples: Art (except commercial and graphic) instruction, Music instruction (e.g., piano, guitar), Dance instruction, Music schools (except academic), Dance studios, Performing arts schools (except academic), Drama schools (except academic), Photography schools (except commercial photography), Fine arts schools (except academic); offering instruction in athletic activities to groups of individuals. Overnight and day sports instruction camps are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Camps, sports instruction, Professional sports instructors (i.e., not participating in sporting events), Cheerleading instruction, Riding instruction academies or schools, Gymnastics instruction, Sports (e.g., baseball, basketball, football, golf) instruction, Martial arts instruction, camps or schools, Swimming instruction; offering foreign language instruction (including sign language). These establishments are designed to offer language instruction ranging from conversational skills for personal enrichment to intensive training courses for career or educational opportunities; offering preparation for standardized examinations and/or academic tutoring services. Illustrative Examples: Academic tutoring services, Learning centers offering remedial courses, College board preparation centers, Professional examination review instruction; offering automobile driving instruction; offering instruction (except business, computer, management, technical, trade, fine arts, athletic, language instruction, tutoring, and automobile driving instruction). Also excluded from this industry are academic schools, colleges, and universities. Illustrative Examples: Public speaking training, Survival training, Speed reading instruction, Yoga instruction, camps, or schools; providing non-instructional services that support educational processes or systems. Illustrative Examples: Educational consultants, Educational testing services, Educational guidance counseling services, Student exchange programs, Educational testing evaluation services. |
Other electronic component manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing electronic fixed and variable capacitors and condensers; (2) manufacturing electronic resistors, such as fixed and variable resistors, resistor networks, thermistors, and varistors; and (3) manufacturing electronic inductors, such as coils and transformers; manufacturing electronic connectors, such as coaxial, cylindrical, rack and panel, pin and sleeve, printed circuit and fiber optic. manufacturing electronic components (except bare printed circuit boards; semiconductors and related devices; electronic capacitors; electronic resistors; coils, transformers and other inductors; connectors; and loaded printed circuit boards). Illustrative Examples: Crystals and crystal assemblies, electronic, manufacturing, Electron tubes manufacturing, LCD (liquid crystal display) unit screens manufacturing, Microwave components manufacturing, Piezoelectric devices manufacturing, Printed circuit laminates manufacturing, Switches for electronic applications manufacturing, Transducers (except pressure) manufacturing. |
Other engine equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing internal combustion engines (except automotive gasoline and aircraft). |
Other fabricated metal manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fabricated metal products (except forgings and stampings, cutlery and handtools, architectural and structural metals, boilers, tanks, shipping containers, hardware, spring and wire products, machine shop products, turned products, screws, nuts and bolts, metal valves, ball and roller bearings, ammunition, small arms and other ordnances and accessories, and fabricated pipes and pipe fittings). Illustrative Examples: Foil containers (except bags) manufacturing, Industrial pattern manufacturing, Metal hair curlers manufacturing, Metal ironing boards manufacturing, Metal pallets manufacturing, Metal pipe hangers and supports manufacturing, Metal safes manufacturing, Metal vaults (except burial) manufacturing, Permanent metallic magnets manufacturing, Portable metal ladders manufacturing, Sanitary ware (e.g., bathtubs, lavatories, sinks), metal and enameled metal, manufacturing, Steel wool manufacturing. |
Other financial investment activities | Finance and Insurance | Comprises: providing customized investment advice to clients on a fee basis, but do not have the authority to execute trades. Primary activities performed by establishments in this industry are providing financial planning advice and investment counseling to meet the goals and needs of specific clients. Illustrative Examples: Financial investment advice services, customized, fees paid by client, Investment advisory services, customized, fees paid by client, Financial planning services, customized, fees paid by client; providing trust, fiduciary, and custody services to others, as instructed, on a fee or contract basis, such as bank trust offices and escrow agencies (except real estate); acting as agents and/or brokers (except securities brokerages and commodity contracts brokerages) in buying or selling financial contracts and those providing financial investment services (except securities and commodity exchanges; portfolio management; investment advice; and trust, fiduciary, and custody services) on a fee or commission basis. Illustrative Examples: Exchange clearinghouses, commodities or securities, Stock quotation services, Gas lease brokers' offices. |
Other furniture related product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing innerspring, box spring, and noninnerspring mattresses, including mattresses for waterbeds; manufacturing one or more of the following: venetian blinds, other window blinds, and shades; curtain and drapery rods and poles; and/or curtain and drapery fixtures. The blinds and shades may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be made of any material; manufacturing surgical appliances and supplies. Examples of products made by these establishments are orthopedic devices, prosthetic appliances, surgical dressings, crutches, surgical sutures, personal industrial safety devices (except protective eyewear), hospital beds, and operating room tables. |
Other general purpose machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises esablishments primarily engaged in: manufacturing scales and balances, including those used in laboratories; manufacturing general purpose machinery (except ventilating, heating, air-conditioning, and commercial refrigeration equipment; metalworking machinery; engines, turbines, and power transmission equipment; pumps and compressors; material handling equipment; power-driven handtools; welding and soldering equipment; packaging machinery; industrial process furnaces and ovens; fluid power cylinders and actuators; fluid power pumps and motors; and scales and balances). Illustrative Examples: Automatic fire sprinkler systems manufacturing, Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing, Bridge and gate lifting machinery manufacturing, Centrifuges, industrial and laboratory-type, manufacturing, Cremating ovens manufacturing, General purpose-type sieves and screening equipment manufacturing, Hydraulic and pneumatic jacks manufacturing, Industrial and general purpose-type filters (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace) manufacturing; manufacturing welding and soldering equipment and accessories (except transformers), such as arc, resistance, gas, plasma, laser, electron beam, and ultrasonic welding equipment; welding electrodes; coated or cored welding wire; and soldering equipment (except handheld). |
Other household nonupholstered furniture | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing metal household-type furniture and freestanding cabinets. The furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown); manufacturing household-type furniture of materials other than wood or metal, such as plastics, reed, rattan, wicker, and fiberglass. The furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown). |
Other industrial machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing food and beverage manufacturing-type machinery and equipment, such as dairy product plant machinery and equipment (e.g., homogenizers, pasteurizers, ice cream freezers), bakery machinery and equipment (e.g., dough mixers, bake ovens, pastry rolling machines), meat and poultry processing and preparation machinery, and other commercial food products machinery (e.g., slicers, choppers, and mixers); (1) manufacturing sawmill and woodworking machinery (except handheld), such as circular and band sawing equipment, planing machinery, and sanding machinery, and/or (2) manufacturing paper industry machinery for making paper and paper products, such as pulp making machinery, paper and paperboard making machinery, and paper and paperboard converting machinery; manufacturing printing and bookbinding machinery and equipment, such as printing presses, typesetting machinery, and bindery machinery; manufacturing industrial machinery (except agricultural and farm-type; construction and mining machinery; food manufacturing-type machinery; semiconductor making machinery; sawmill, woodworking, and paper making machinery; and printing machinery and equipment). Illustrative Examples: Additive manufacturing machinery manufacturing, Chemical processing machinery and equipment manufacturing, Cigarette making machinery manufacturing, Glass making machinery (e.g., blowing, forming, molding) manufacturing, Petroleum refining machinery manufacturing, Plastics working machinery manufacturing, Rubber working machinery manufacturing, Sewing machines (including household-type) manufacturing, Shoe making and repairing machinery manufacturing, Tannery machinery manufacturing, Textile making machinery manufacturing |
Other major household appliance manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing household-type cooking appliances, household-type laundry equipment, household-type refrigerators, upright and chest freezers, and other electrical and nonelectrical major household-type appliances, such as dishwashers, water heaters, and garbage disposal units. |
Other motor vehicle parts manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and/or rebuilding motor vehicle parts and accessories (except motor vehicle gasoline engines and engine parts, motor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment, motor vehicle steering and suspension components, motor vehicle brake systems, motor vehicle transmissions and power train parts, motor vehicle seating and interior trim, and motor vehicle stampings). Illustrative Examples: Air bag assemblies manufacturing, Air-conditioners, motor vehicle, manufacturing, Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Catalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing, Compressors, motor vehicle air-conditioning, manufacturing, Mufflers and resonators, motor vehicle, manufacturing, Radiators and cores manufacturing, Wheels (i.e., rims), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing. |
Other nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) operating commercial grade (i.e., construction) sand and gravel pits; (2) dredging for commercial grade sand and gravel; and (3) washing, screening, or otherwise preparing commercial grade sand and gravel; establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) operating industrial grade sand pits; (2) dredging for industrial grade sand; and (3) washing, screening, or otherwise preparing industrial grade sand; (1) establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site and/or mining kaolin or ball clay (e.g., china clay, paper clay, and slip clay) and (2) establishments primarily engaged in beneficiating (i.e., preparing) kaolin or ball clay; establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) mining clay (except kaolin and ball), ceramic, or refractory minerals; (2) developing the mine site for clay, ceramic, or refractory minerals; and (3) beneficiating (i.e., preparing) clay (except kaolin and ball), ceramic, or refractory minerals. Illustrative Examples: Bentonite mining and/or beneficiating, Fuller's earth mining and/or beneficiating, Common clay mining and/or beneficiating, Magnesite mining and/or beneficiating, Feldspar mining and/or beneficiating, Nepheline syenite mining and/or beneficiating, Fire clay mining and/or beneficiating, Shale (except oil shale) mining and/or beneficiating; establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining and/or milling, or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) natural potassium, sodium, or boron compounds. Drylake brine operations are included in this industry, as well as establishments engaged in producing the specified minerals from underground and open pit mines; establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, milling, and/or drying or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) phosphate rock; establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, milling, and/or drying or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) chemical or fertilizer mineral raw materials (except potash, soda, boron, and phosphate rock). Illustrative Examples: Barite mining and/or beneficiating, Rock salt mining and/or beneficiating, Celestite mining and/or beneficiating, Sulfur mining and/or beneficiating, Fluorspar mining and/or beneficiating; establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining and/or milling, or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) nonmetallic minerals (except stone, sand, gravel, clay, ceramic, refractory minerals, and chemical and fertilizer minerals). Illustrative Examples: Gypsum mining and/or beneficiating, Soapstone mining and/or beneficiating, Mica mining and/or beneficiating, Talc mining and/or beneficiating, Pyrophyllite mining and/or beneficiating. |
Other nonresidential structures | Construction | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in the construction of water and sewer lines, mains, pumping stations, treatment plants, and storage tanks. The work performed may include new work, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and repairs. Specialty trade contractors are included in this industry if they are engaged in activities primarily related to water, sewer line, and related structures construction. All structures (including buildings) that are integral parts of water and sewer networks (e.g., storage tanks, pumping stations, water treatment plants, and sewage treatment plants) are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Distribution line, sewer and water, construction, Sewer main, pipe and connection, construction, Fire hydrant installation, Storm sewer construction, Irrigation systems construction, Water main and line construction, Sewage disposal plant construction, Pumping station, water and sewage system, construction, Water system storage tank and tower construction, Reservoir construction, Water treatment plant construction, Water well drilling, digging, boring, or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields); establishments primarily engaged in the construction of oil and gas lines, mains, refineries, and storage tanks. The work performed may include new work, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and repairs. Specialty trade contractors are included in this industry if they are engaged in activities primarily related to oil and gas pipeline and related structures construction. All structures (including buildings) that are integral parts of oil and gas networks (e.g., storage tanks, pumping stations, and refineries) are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Distribution line, gas and oil, construction, Oil refinery construction, Gas main construction, Petrochemical plant construction, Gathering line, gas and oil field, construction, Pumping station, gas and oil transmission, construction, Natural gas pipeline construction, Storage tank, natural gas or oil, tank farm or field, construction, Natural gas processing plant construction; establishments primarily engaged in servicing land and subdividing real property into lots, for subsequent sale to builders. Servicing of land may include excavation work for the installation of roads and utility lines. The extent of work may vary from project to project. Land subdivision precedes building activity and the subsequent building is often residential, but may also be commercial tracts and industrial parks. These establishments may do all the work themselves or subcontract the work to others. Establishments that perform only the legal subdivision of land are not included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in heavy and civil engineering construction projects (excluding highway, street, bridge, and distribution line construction). The work performed may include new work, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and repairs. Specialty trade contractors are included in this industry if they are engaged in activities primarily related to heavy and civil engineering construction projects (excluding highway, street, bridge, distribution line, oil and gas structure, and utilities building and structure construction). Construction projects involving water resources (e.g., dredging and land drainage), development of marine facilities, and projects involving open space improvement (e.g., parks and trails) are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Channel construction, Land drainage contractors, Dam construction, Marine construction, Dock construction, Microtunneling contractors, Dredging (e.g., canal, channel, ditch, waterway), Nuclear waste disposal site construction, Earth retention system construction, Park ground and recreational open space improvement construction, Flood control project construction, Railroad construction, Golf course construction, Subway construction, Horizontal drilling (e.g., cable, pipeline, sewer installation), Trenching, underwater, Hydroelectric generating station construction, Tunnel construction. |
Other personal services | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing pet care services (except veterinary), such as boarding, grooming, sitting, and training pets; establishments (except those known as "one-hour" photofinishing labs) primarily engaged in developing film and/or making photographic slides, prints, and enlargements; establishments known as "one-hour" photofinishing labs primarily engaged in developing film and/or making photographic slides, prints, and enlargements on a short turnaround or while-you-wait basis; establishments primarily engaged in providing parking space for motor vehicles, usually on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis and/or valet parking services; establishments primarily engaged in providing personal services (except personal care services, death care services, drycleaning and laundry services, pet care services, photofinishing services, or parking space and/or valet parking services). Illustrative Examples: Bail bonding or bondsperson services, Shoeshine services, Coin-operated personal services machine (e.g., blood pressure, locker, photographic, scale, shoeshine) concession operators, Social escort services, Consumer buying services, Wedding planning services, Dating services, Personal fitness training services. |
Other petroleum and coal products manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: blending or compounding refined petroleum to make lubricating oils and greases and/or re-refining used petroleum lubricating oils; manufacturing petroleum products (except asphalt paving, roofing, and saturated materials and lubricating oils and greases) from refined petroleum and coal products made in coke ovens not integrated with a steel mill. Illustrative Examples: Biodiesel fuels not made in petroleum refineries and blended with purchased refined petroleum, Coke oven products (e.g., coke, gases, tars) made in coke oven establishments, Petroleum briquettes made from refined petroleum, Petroleum jelly made from refined petroleum, Petroleum waxes made from refined petroleum |
Other plastics product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing plastics or fiberglass plumbing fixtures. Examples of products made by these establishments are plastics or fiberglass bathtubs, hot tubs, portable toilets, and shower stalls; manufacturing plastics products (except film, sheet, bags, profile shapes, pipes, pipe fittings, laminates, foam products, bottles, and plumbing fixtures). |
Other real estate | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in acting as lessors of buildings (except miniwarehouses and self-storage units) that are not used as residences or dwellings. Included in this industry are: (1) owner-lessors of nonresidential buildings; (2) establishments renting real estate and then acting as lessors in subleasing it to others; and (3) establishments providing full service office space, whether on a lease or service contract basis. The establishments in this industry may manage the property themselves or have another establishment manage it for them; establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing space for self-storage. These establishments provide secure space (i.e., rooms, compartments, lockers, containers, or outdoor space) where clients can store and retrieve their goods; establishments primarily engaged in acting as lessors of real estate (except buildings), such as manufactured home (i.e., mobile home) sites, vacant lots, and grazing land; establishments primarily engaged in acting as agents and/or brokers in one or more of the following: (1) selling real estate for others; (2) buying real estate for others; and (3) renting real estate for others; establishments primarily engaged in managing nonresidential real estate for others; establishments primarily engaged in estimating the fair market value of real estate; establishments primarily engaged in performing real estate related services (except lessors of real estate, offices of real estate agents and brokers, real estate property managers, and offices of real estate appraisers). Illustrative Examples: Real estate escrow agencies, Real estate listing services, Real estate fiduciaries' offices. |
Other residential structures | Construction | This industry comprises general contractor establishments primarily responsible for the entire construction of other residential structures besides single-family and/or multifamily homes. |
Other rubber product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing rubber goods (except tubing) for mechanical applications, using the processes of molding, extruding or lathe-cutting. Products of this industry are generally parts for motor vehicles, machinery, and equipment; manufacturing rubber products (except tires; hoses and belting; and molded, extruded, and lathe-cut rubber goods for mechanical applications (except rubber tubing)) from natural and synthetic rubber. Establishments manufacturing rubber tubing made from natural and synthetic rubber, regardless of process used, are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Birth control devices (i.e., diaphragms, prophylactics) manufacturing, Latex foam rubber manufacturing, Reclaiming rubber from waste and scrap, Rubber balloons manufacturing, Rubber bands manufacturing, Rubber floor mats (e.g., door, bath) manufacturing, Rubber hair care products (e.g., combs, curlers) manufacturing, Rubber tubing manufacturing |
Other support activities for mining | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises: performing support activities on a contract or fee basis for oil and gas operations (except site preparation and related construction activities). Services included are exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping); excavating slush pits and cellars, well surveying; running, cutting, and pulling casings, tubes, and rods; cementing wells, shooting wells; perforating well casings; acidizing and chemically treating wells; and cleaning out, bailing, and swabbing wells; providing support activities for coal mining (except site preparation and related construction activities) on a contract or fee basis. Exploration for coal is included in this industry. Exploration includes traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites; providing support activities (except site preparation and related construction activities) on a contract or fee basis for the mining and quarrying of metallic minerals and for the extraction of metal ores. Exploration for these minerals is included in this industry. Exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping services) includes traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites; providing support activities, on a contract or fee basis, for the mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuel) and for the extraction of nonmetallic minerals (except site preparation and related construction activities). Exploration for these minerals is included in this industry. Exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping services) includes traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites. |
Other support services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises: packaging client-owned materials. The services may include labeling and/or imprinting the package. Illustrative Examples: Apparel and textile folding and packaging services, Kit assembling and packaging services, Blister packaging services, Shrink wrapping services, Gift wrapping services; organizing, promoting, and/or managing events, such as business and trade shows, conventions, conferences, and meetings (whether or not they manage and provide the staff to operate the facilities in which these events take place); providing day-to-day business and other organizational support services (except office administrative services, facilities support services, employment services, business support services, travel arrangement and reservation services, security and investigation services, services to buildings and other structures, packaging and labeling services, and convention and trade show organizing services). Illustrative Examples: Bartering services, Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services, Bottle exchanges, Float decorating services, Cloth cutting, bolting, or winding for the trade, Inventory taking services, Contract meter reading services, Lumber grading services, Diving services on a contract or fee basis. |
Other textile product mills | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing textile bags or other canvas and canvas-like products, such as awnings, sails, tarpaulins, and tents from purchased textile fabrics or yarns. Illustrative Examples: Covers (e.g., boat, swimming pool, truck) made from purchased fabrics, Laundry bags made from purchased woven or knitted materials, Seed bags made from purchased woven or knitted materials, Textile bags made from purchased woven or knitted materials; manufacturing textile bags or other canvas and canvas-like products, such as awnings, sails, tarpaulins, and tents from purchased textile fabrics or yarns. Illustrative Examples: Covers (e.g., boat, swimming pool, truck) made from purchased fabrics, Laundry bags made from purchased woven or knitted materials, Seed bags made from purchased woven or knitted materials, Textile bags made from purchased woven or knitted materials; (1) manufacturing rope, cable, cordage, twine, and related products from all materials (e.g., abaca, sisal, henequen, cotton, paper, jute, flax, manmade fibers including glass) and/or (2) manufacturing cord and fabric of polyester, rayon, cotton, glass, steel, or other materials for use in reinforcing rubber tires, industrial belting, and similar uses; (1) manufacturing rope, cable, cordage, twine, and related products from all materials (e.g., abaca, sisal, henequen, cotton, paper, jute, flax, manmade fibers including glass) and/or (2) manufacturing cord and fabric of polyester, rayon, cotton, glass, steel, or other materials for use in reinforcing rubber tires, industrial belting, and similar uses; manufacturing textile products (except carpets and rugs; curtains and linens; textile bags and canvas products; rope, cordage, and twine; and tire cords and tire fabrics) from purchased materials. These establishments may further embellish the textile products they manufacture with decorative stitching. Establishments primarily engaged in adding decorative stitching such as embroidery or other art needlework on textile products, including apparel, on a contract or fee basis for the trade, are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Batts and batting (except nonwoven fabrics) manufacturing, Embroidering on textile products or apparel for the trade, Fishing nets made from purchased materials, Carpet cutting and binding, Sleeping bags manufacturing, Diapers (except disposable) made from purchased materials, Textile fire hoses made from purchased materials, Dust cloths made from purchased fabric, Weatherstripping made from purchased textiles |
Outpatient care centers | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments with medical staff primarily engaged in providing a range of family planning services on an outpatient basis, such as contraceptive services, genetic and prenatal counseling, voluntary sterilization, and therapeutic and medically induced termination of pregnancy. Illustrative Examples: Birth control clinics, Fertility clinics, Childbirth preparation classes, Pregnancy counseling centers; establishments with medical staff primarily engaged in providing outpatient services related to the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders and alcohol and other substance abuse. These establishments generally treat patients who do not require inpatient treatment. They may provide a counseling staff and information regarding a wide range of mental health and substance abuse issues and/or refer patients to more extensive treatment programs, if necessary. Illustrative Examples: Outpatient alcoholism treatment centers and clinics (except hospitals), Outpatient mental health centers and clinics (except hospitals), Outpatient detoxification centers and clinics (except hospitals), Outpatient substance abuse treatment centers and clinics (except hospitals), Outpatient drug addiction treatment centers and clinics (except hospitals); establishments with physicians and other medical staff primarily engaged in providing a range of outpatient medical services to the health maintenance organization (HMO) subscribers with a focus generally on primary health care. These establishments are owned by the HMO. Included in this industry are HMO establishments that both provide health care services and underwrite health and medical insurance policies; establishments with medical staff primarily engaged in providing outpatient kidney or renal dialysis services; establishments with physicians and other medical staff primarily engaged in (1) providing surgical services (e.g., orthoscopic and cataract surgery) on an outpatient basis or (2) providing emergency care services (e.g., setting broken bones, treating lacerations, or tending to patients suffering injuries as a result of accidents, trauma, or medical conditions necessitating immediate medical care) on an outpatient basis. Outpatient surgical establishments have specialized facilities, such as operating and recovery rooms, and specialized equipment, such as anesthetic or X-ray equipment. Illustrative Examples: Freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, Freestanding trauma centers (except hospitals), Freestanding emergency medical centers and clinics, Urgent medical care centers and clinics (except hospitals); establishments with medical staff primarily engaged in providing general or specialized outpatient care (except family planning centers, outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers, HMO medical centers, kidney dialysis centers, and freestanding ambulatory surgical and emergency centers). Centers or clinics of health practitioners with different degrees from more than one industry practicing within the same establishment (i.e., Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Dental Medicine) are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Outpatient biofeedback centers and clinics, Outpatient pain therapy centers and clinics, Outpatient community health centers and clinics, Outpatient sleep disorder centers and clinics. |
P- and other fertiliser | Manufacturing | Manufacture of phosphatic or potassic fertilizers. |
Packaging machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing packaging machinery, such as wrapping, bottling, canning, and labeling machinery. |
Paint and coating manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) mixing pigments, solvents, and binders into paints and other coatings, such as stains, varnishes, lacquers, enamels, shellacs, and water-repellent coatings for concrete and masonry, and/or (2) manufacturing allied paint products, such as putties, paint and varnish removers, paint brush cleaners, and frit. |
Paper bag and coated and treated paper manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) cutting and coating paper and paperboard; (2) cutting and laminating paper, paperboard, and other flexible materials (except plastics film to plastics film); (3) manufacturing bags, multiwall bags, sacks of paper, metal foil, coated paper, laminates, or coated combinations of paper and foil with plastics film; (4) manufacturing laminated aluminum and other converted metal foils from purchased foils; and (5) surface coating paper or paperboard. |
Paper mills | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing paper (except newsprint and uncoated groundwood paper) from pulp. These establishments may manufacture or purchase pulp. In addition, the establishments may also convert the paper they make; manufacturing newsprint and uncoated groundwood paper from pulp. These establishments may manufacture or purchase pulp. In addition, the establishments may also convert the paper they make. |
Paperboard container manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: laminating purchased paper or paperboard into corrugated or solid fiber boxes and related products, such as pads, partitions, pallets, and corrugated paper without manufacturing paperboard. These boxes are generally used for shipping; converting paperboard (except corrugated) into folding paperboard boxes without manufacturing paper and paperboard. converting paperboard into paperboard containers (except corrugated, solid fiber, and folding paperboard boxes) without manufacturing paperboard. Illustrative Examples: Fiber cans and drums (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material) made from purchased paperboard, Milk cartons made from purchased paper or paperboard, Sanitary food containers (except folding) made from purchased paper or paperboard, Setup (i.e., not shipped flat) boxes made from purchased paperboard. |
Paperboard mills | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing paperboard (e.g., can/drum stock, container board, corrugating medium, folding carton stock, linerboard, tube) from pulp. These establishments may manufacture or purchase pulp. In addition, the establishments may also convert the paperboard they make. |
Performing arts companies | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises: (1) companies, groups, or theaters primarily engaged in producing the following live theatrical presentations: musicals; operas; plays; and comedy, improvisational, mime, and puppet shows and (2) establishments, commonly known as dinner theaters, engaged in producing live theatrical productions and in providing food and beverages for consumption on the premises. Theater groups or companies may or may not operate their own theater or other facility for staging their shows. Illustrative Examples: Comedy troupes, Opera companies, Live theatrical productions (except dance), Theatrical stock or repertory companies, Musical theater companies; companies, groups, or theaters primarily engaged in producing all types of live theatrical dance (e.g., ballet, contemporary dance, folk dance) presentations. Dance companies or groups may or may not operate their own theater or other facility for staging their shows; (1) groups primarily engaged in producing live musical entertainment (except theatrical musical or opera productions) and (2) independent (i.e., freelance) artists primarily engaged in providing live musical entertainment. Musical groups and artists may perform in front of a live audience or in a studio, and may or may not operate their own facilities for staging their shows. Illustrative Examples: Bands, Musical groups (except theatrical musical groups), Drum and bugle corps (i.e., drill teams), Orchestras, Independent musicians or vocalists; companies or groups (except theater companies, dance companies, and musical groups and artists) primarily engaged in producing live theatrical presentations. Illustrative Examples: Carnival traveling shows, Ice skating companies, Circuses, Magic shows. |
Periodical Publishers | Information | Comprises establishments known either as magazine publishers or periodical publishers. These establishments carry out the operations necessary for producing and distributing magazines and other periodicals, such as gathering, writing, and editing articles, and selling and preparing advertisements. These establishments may publish magazines and other periodicals in print or electronic form. Illustrative Examples: Comic book publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Radio and television guide publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Magazine publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Scholarly journal publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Newsletter publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing), Trade journal publishers (except exclusive Internet publishing). |
Personal and household goods repair and maintenance | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing home and garden equipment without retailing new home and garden equipment, such as lawnmowers, handheld power tools, edgers, snowblowers, leaf blowers, and trimmers; establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing household appliances without retailing new appliances, such as refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, clothes dryers, and room air-conditioners; establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) reupholstering furniture; (2) refinishing furniture; (3) repairing furniture; and (4) repairing and restoring furniture; establishments primarily engaged in repairing footwear and/or repairing other leather or leather-like goods without retailing new footwear and leather or leather-like goods, such as handbags and briefcases; establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing personal or household-type goods without retailing new personal or household-type goods (except home and garden equipment, appliances, furniture, and footwear and leather goods). Establishments in this industry repair items, such as garments; watches; jewelry; musical instruments; bicycles and motorcycles; and motorboats, canoes, sailboats, and other recreational boats. |
Personal care services | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises: establishments known as barber shops or men's hair stylist shops primarily engaged in cutting, trimming, and styling men's and boys' hair; and/or shaving and trimming men's beards; establishments (except those known as barber shops or men's hair stylist shops) primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) cutting, trimming, shampooing, coloring, waving, or styling hair; (2) providing facials; and (3) applying makeup (except permanent makeup). Illustrative Examples: Beauty parlors or shops, Facial salons or shops, Combined beauty and barber shops, Hairdressing salons or shops, Cosmetology salons or shops, Unisex or women's hair stylist shops; establishments primarily engaged in providing nail care services, such as manicures, pedicures, and nail extensions; establishments primarily engaged in providing non-medical services to assist clients in attaining or maintaining a desired weight. The sale of weight reduction products, such as food supplements, may be an integral component of the program. These services typically include individual or group counseling, menu and exercise planning, and weight and body measurement monitoring; establishments primarily engaged in providing personal care services (except hair, nail, facial, nonpermanent makeup, or non-medical diet and weight reducing services). Illustrative Examples: Day spas, Depilatory or electrolysis (i.e., hair removal) salons, Saunas, Ear piercing services, Steam or turkish baths, Hair replacement (except by offices of physicians) or weaving services, Tanning salons, Massage parlors, Tattoo parlors, Permanent makeup salons. |
Pesticide and other agricultural chemical manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in the formulation and preparation of agricultural and household pest control chemicals (except fertilizers). |
Petrochemical manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing acyclic (i.e., aliphatic) hydrocarbons such as ethylene, propylene, and butylene made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons and/or (2) manufacturing cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene, toluene, styrene, xylene, ethyl benzene, and cumene made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons. |
Petroleum refineries | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in refining crude petroleum into refined petroleum. Petroleum refining involves one or more of the following activities: (1) fractionation; (2) straight distillation of crude oil; and (3) cracking. |
Pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing in-vivo diagnostic substances and pharmaceutical preparations (except biological) intended for internal and external consumption in dose forms, such as ampoules, tablets, capsules, vials, ointments, powders, solutions, and suspensions. |
Photographic and photocopying equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing photographic and photocopying equipment, such as cameras (except television and video), projectors, film developing equipment, photocopying equipment, and microfilm equipment. |
Photographic services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments known as portrait studios primarily engaged in providing still, video, or digital portrait photography services. Illustrative Examples: Home photography services, School photography services, Passport photography services, Videotaping services for special events (e.g., weddings); establishments primarily engaged in providing commercial photography services, generally for advertising agencies, publishers, and other business and industrial users. |
Pigs farming | Agriculture, hunting and forestry | Raising of live domesticated animals, specifically swine. |
Pipeline transportation | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: the pipeline transportation of crude oil; the pipeline transportation of natural gas from processing plants to local distribution systems. This industry includes the storage of natural gas because the storage is usually done by the pipeline establishment and because a pipeline is inherently a network in which all the nodes are interdependent; the pipeline transportation of refined petroleum products; the pipeline transportation of products (except crude oil, natural gas, and refined petroleum products). |
Plastics and rubber industry machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial machinery (except agricultural and farm-type; construction and mining machinery; food manufacturing-type machinery; semiconductor making machinery; sawmill, woodworking, and paper making machinery; and printing machinery and equipment). Illustrative Examples: Additive manufacturing machinery manufacturing, Chemical processing machinery and equipment manufacturing, Cigarette making machinery manufacturing, Glass making machinery (e.g., blowing, forming, molding) manufacturing, Petroleum refining machinery manufacturing, Plastics working machinery manufacturing, Rubber working machinery manufacturing, Sewing machines (including household-type) manufacturing, Shoe making and repairing machinery manufacturing, Tannery machinery manufacturing, Textile making machinery manufacturing |
Plastics bottle manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing plastics bottles. |
Plastics material and resin manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing resins, plastics materials, and nonvulcanizable thermoplastic elastomers and mixing and blending resins on a custom basis and/or (2) manufacturing noncustomized synthetic resins. |
Plastics packaging materials and unlaminated film and sheet manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) converting plastics resins into plastics bags or pouches and/or (2) forming, coating, or laminating plastics film or sheet into single-web or multiweb plastics bags or pouches. Establishments in this industry may print on the bags or pouches they manufacture; converting plastics resins into plastics packaging (flexible) film and packaging sheet; converting plastics resins into plastics film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging). |
Plastics pipe, pipe fitting, and unlaminated profile shape manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: converting plastics resins into nonrigid plastics profile shapes (except film, sheet, and bags), such as rod, tube, and sausage casings; converting plastics resins into rigid plastics pipes and pipe fittings. |
Plate work and fabricated structural product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing prefabricated metal buildings, panels, and sections; fabricating structural metal products, such as assemblies of concrete reinforcing bars and fabricated bar joists; manufacturing fabricated metal plate work by cutting, punching, bending, shaping, and welding purchased metal plate. |
Plumbing fixture fitting and trim manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal and plastics plumbing fixture fittings and trim, such as faucets, flush valves, and shower heads. |
Polystyrene foam product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing polystyrene foam products. |
Postal service | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing mail services under a universal service obligation. Mail services include the carriage of letters, printed matter, or mailable packages, including acceptance, collection, processing, and delivery. Due to the infrastructure requirements of providing mail service under a universal service obligation, postal service establishments often provide parcel and express delivery services in addition to the mail service. Establishments primarily engaged in performing one or more parts of the basic mail service, such as sorting, routing and/or delivery (except bulk transportation of mail) are included in this industry. |
Poultry and egg production | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: raising chickens for egg production. The eggs produced may be for use as table eggs or hatching eggs; raising broilers, fryers, roasters, and other meat type chickens; raising turkeys for meat or egg production; hatching poultry of any kind; raising poultry (except chickens for meat or egg production and turkeys). Illustrative Examples: Duck production, Ostrich production, Emu production, Pheasant production, Geese production, Quail production. |
Poultry processing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) slaughtering poultry and small game and/or (2) preparing processed poultry and small game meat and meat byproducts. |
Power and communication structures | Construction | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction of power lines and towers, power plants, and radio, television, and telecommunications transmitting/receiving towers. The work performed may include new work, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and repairs. Specialty trade contractors are included in this industry if they are engaged in activities primarily related to power and communication line and related structures construction. All structures (including buildings) that are integral parts of power and communication networks (e.g., transmitting towers, substations, and power plants) are included. Illustrative Examples: Alternative energy (e.g., geothermal, ocean wave, solar, wind) structure construction, Power line stringing, Cellular phone tower construction, Radio transmitting tower construction, Co-generation plant construction, Satellite receiving station construction, Communication tower construction, Nuclear power plant construction, Telephone line stringing, Electric light and power plant (except hydroelectric) construction |
Power boiler and heat exchanger manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing power boilers and heat exchangers. Establishments in this industry may perform installation in addition to manufacturing power boilers and heat exchangers. |
Power-driven handtool manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing power-driven (e.g., battery, corded, pneumatic) handtools, such as drills, screwguns, circular saws, chain saws, staplers, and nailers. |
Power, distribution, and specialty transformer manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing power, distribution, and specialty transformers (except electronic components). Industrial-type and consumer-type transformers in this industry vary (e.g., step up or step down) voltage but do not convert alternating to direct or direct to alternating current. Illustrative Examples: Distribution transformers, electric, manufacturing, Fluorescent ballasts (i.e., transformers) manufacturing, Substation transformers, electric power distribution, manufacturing, Transmission and distribution voltage regulators manufacturing. |
Precious metals production | Manufacturing | Manufacture of the precious metals: gold, silver, and metals of the platinum group. |
Primary battery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wet or dry primary batteries. Illustrative Examples: Disposable flashlight batteries manufacturing, Dry cells, primary (e.g., AAA, AA, C, D, 9V), manufacturing, Lithium batteries, primary, manufacturing, Watch batteries manufacturing. |
Primary smelting and refining of copper | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) smelting ores into nonferrous metals and/or (2) the primary refining of nonferrous metals (except aluminum) by electrolytic methods or other processes. |
Primary smelting and refining of nonferrous metal (except copper and aluminum) | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) smelting ores into nonferrous metals and/or (2) the primary refining of nonferrous metals (except aluminum) by electrolytic methods or other processes. |
Printed circuit assembly (electronic assembly) manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in loading components onto printed circuit boards or who manufacture and ship loaded printed circuit boards. Also known as printed circuit assemblies, electronics assemblies, or modules, these products are printed circuit boards that have some or all of the semiconductor and electronic components inserted or mounted and are inputs to a wide variety of electronic systems and devices. |
Printing | Manufacturing | Comprises: commercial printing (except screen printing, books printing) without publishing (except grey goods printing). The printing processes used in this industry include, but are not limited to, lithographic, gravure, flexographic, letterpress, engraving, and various digital printing technologies. This industry includes establishments engaged in commercial printing on purchased stock materials, such as stationery, invitations, labels, and similar items, on a job-order basis. Establishments primarily engaged in traditional printing activities combined with document photocopying services (i.e., quick printers) or primarily engaged in printing graphical materials using digital printing equipment are included in this industry; screen printing without publishing (except books, grey goods, and manifold business forms). This industry includes establishments engaged in screen printing on purchased stock materials, such as stationery, invitations, labels, and similar items, on a job-order basis. Establishments primarily engaged in printing on apparel and textile products, such as T-shirts, caps, jackets, towels, and napkins, are included in this industry; printing or printing and binding books and pamphlets without publishing. |
Printing ink manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing printing and inkjet inks and inkjet cartridges. |
Private households | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises private households primarily engaged in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of the household. These private households may employ individuals, such as cooks, maids, nannies, butlers, and outside workers, such as gardeners, caretakers, and other maintenance workers. |
Processed rice | Manufacturing | Rice milling: husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled, or converted. |
Processing of meat pigs | Manufacturing | Operation of slaughterhouses killing, dressing, or packing meat of hogs processed on land or on vessels specialized for this work. |
Processing of nuclear fuel | Manufacturing | This class includes extraction of uranium metal from pitchblende or other uranium bearing ores. |
Production of electricity by biomass and waste | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using biomass (such as wood, agricultural residues, animal manure) or waste materials as primary fuel sources. |
Production of electricity by coal | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using coal as a primary fuel source. |
Production of electricity by gas | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using gas (natural gas, biogas, etc.) as a primary fuel source. |
Production of electricity by Geothermal | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using geothermal energy (heat from the Earth's interior) as a primary energy source. |
Production of electricity by hydro | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using hydropower (water) as a primary energy source. |
Production of electricity by nuclear | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using nuclear energy as a primary fuel source. |
Production of electricity by petroleum and other oil derivatives | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using petroleum or other oil derivatives as primary fuel sources. |
Production of electricity by solar photovoltaic | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using solar photovoltaic technology to convert sunlight directly into electricity. |
Production of electricity by solar thermal | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using solar thermal technology to harness solar energy for heating or power generation. |
Production of electricity by tide, wave, ocean | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using tidal, wave, or ocean energy as primary energy sources. |
Production of electricity by wind | Electricity, gas and water supply | Generation of electric energy using wind power as a primary energy source. |
Production of meat products nec | Manufacturing | Operation of slaughterhouses killing, dressing, or packing meat of sheep, goats, horses, rabbits, game, or other animals including whales processed on land or on vessels specialized for this work. |
Promoters of performing arts and sports and agents for public figures | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in (1) organizing, promoting, and/or managing live performing arts productions, sports events, and similar events, such as state fairs, county fairs, agricultural fairs, concerts, and festivals, held in facilities that they manage and operate and/or (2) managing and providing the staff to operate arenas, stadiums, theaters, or other related facilities for rent to other promoters; promoters primarily engaged in organizing, promoting, and/or managing live performing arts productions, sports events, and similar events, such as state fairs, county fairs, agricultural fairs, concerts, and festivals, in facilities that are managed and operated by others. Theatrical (except motion picture) booking agencies are included in this industry; establishments of agents and managers primarily engaged in representing and/or managing creative and performing artists, sports figures, entertainers, and other public figures. The representation and management includes activities, such as representing clients in contract negotiations; managing or organizing clients’ financial affairs; and generally promoting the careers of their clients. Illustrative Examples: Celebrities’ agents or managers, Sports figures’ agents or managers, Literary agents, Talent agents, Modeling agents. |
Propulsion units and parts for space vehicles and guided missiles | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) manufacturing guided missile and/or space vehicle propulsion units and propulsion unit parts and/or (2) developing and making prototypes of guided missile and space vehicle propulsion units and propulsion unit parts; (1) manufacturing guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment (except guided missile and space vehicle propulsion units and propulsion unit parts) and/or (2) developing and making prototypes of guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment. |
Public administration and defense; compulsory social security | Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | Executive and legislative administration by government departments and bodies at central, regional, and local levels. |
Pulp mills | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing pulp without manufacturing paper or paperboard. The pulp is made by separating the cellulose fibers from the other impurities in wood or other materials, such as used or recycled rags, linters, scrap paper, and straw. |
Pump and pumping equipment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing measuring and dispensing pumps, such as gasoline pumps and lubricating oil measuring and dispensing pumps and/or (2) manufacturing general purpose pumps and pumping equipment (except fluid power pumps and motors), such as reciprocating pumps, turbine pumps, centrifugal pumps, rotary pumps, diaphragm pumps, domestic water system pumps, oil well and oil field pumps, and sump pumps. |
Quarrying of sand and clay | Mining and quarrying | Gypsum and anhydrite mining are included. |
Radio and television broadcasting | Information | Comprises: assembling and transmitting aural programming to their affiliates or subscribers via over-the-air broadcasts, cable, or satellite. The programming covers a wide variety of material, such as news services, religious programming, weather, sports, or music; broadcasting aural programs by radio to the public. Programming may originate in their own studio, from an affiliated network, or from external sources; broadcasting images together with sound. These establishments operate television broadcasting studios and facilities for the programming and transmission of programs to the public. These establishments also produce or transmit visual programming to affiliated broadcast television stations, which in turn broadcast the programs to the public on a predetermined schedule. Programming may originate in their own studio, from an affiliated network, or from external sources. |
Rail transportation | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: establishments known as line-haul railroads primarily engaged in operating railroads for the transport of passengers and/or cargo over a long distance within a rail network. These establishments provide for the intercity movement of trains between the terminals and stations on main and branch lines of a line-haul rail network (except for local switching services); establishments known as short-line railroads primarily engaged in operating railroads for the transport of cargo over a short distance on local rail lines not part of a rail network. |
Railroad rolling stock manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing and/or rebuilding locomotives, locomotive frames and parts; (2) manufacturing railroad, street, and rapid transit cars and car equipment for operation on rails for freight and passenger service; and (3) manufacturing rail layers, ballast distributors, rail tamping equipment and other railway track maintenance equipment. |
Re-processing of ash into clinker | - | Grinding and pulverizing ash into fine particles. |
Re-processing of secondary aluminium into new aluminium | Manufacturing | This class includes reprocessing of secondary aluminum into new aluminum. |
Re-processing of secondary construction material into aggregates | Construction | Crushing and grinding of secondary construction materials such as concrete, bricks, tiles, and asphalt. |
Re-processing of secondary copper into new copper | Manufacturing | This class includes reprocessing of secondary copper into new copper. |
Re-processing of secondary glass into new glass | Manufacturing | This class includes reprocessing of secondary glass into new glass. |
Re-processing of secondary lead into new lead, zinc and tin | Manufacturing | This class includes reprocessing of secondary lead into new lead, zinc, and tin. |
Re-processing of secondary other non-ferrous metals into new other non-ferrous metals | Manufacturing | This class includes reprocessing of secondary other nonferrous metals into new other nonferrous metals. |
Re-processing of secondary paper into new pulp | Manufacturing | Manufacturing of wood pulp using mechanical, chemical (dissolving or nondissolving; bleached, semibleached, or unbleached), or semichemical processes. |
Re-processing of secondary plastic into new plastic | Manufacturing | Manufacturing of plastics in primary forms, including polymers of ethylene, polypropylene, styrene, vinyl chloride, vinyl acetate, and other vinyl esters. |
Re-processing of secondary precious metals into new precious metals | Manufacturing | #N/A |
Re-processing of secondary steel into new steel | Manufacturing | This class includes reprocessing of secondary steel into new steel. |
Re-processing of secondary wood material into new wood material | Manufacturing | Sawing rough lumber or timber from logs and bolts, including resawing cants and flitches into lumber. |
Ready-mix concrete manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments, such as batch plants or mix plants, primarily engaged in manufacturing concrete delivered to a purchaser in a plastic and unhardened state. Ready-mix concrete manufacturing establishments may mine, quarry, or purchase sand and gravel. |
Recycling of bottles by direct reuse | Manufacturing | This class encompasses the recycling of bottles through direct reuse, wherein bottles are processed to a form suitable for immediate reuse without undergoing significant alteration. The process involves preparing the bottles for reuse without the need for further industrial processing. |
Recycling of waste and scrap | Manufacturing | Processing metal waste and scrap into forms readily transformed into new raw materials. |
Relay and industrial control manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing relays, motor starters and controllers, and other industrial controls and control accessories. |
Religious organizations | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in operating religious organizations, such as churches, religious temples, and monasteries, and/or (2) establishments primarily engaged in administering an organized religion or promoting religious activities. Illustrative Examples: Churches, Shrines, religious, Monasteries (except schools), Synagogues |
Residential maintenance and repair | Construction | Comprises establishments primarily responsible for the remodeling construction (including additions, alterations, reconstruction, maintenance, and repairs) of houses and other residential buildings, single-family and multifamily. Included in this industry are remodeling general contractors, for-sale remodelers, remodeling design-build firms, and remodeling project construction management firms. |
Residential mental retardation, mental health, substance abuse and other facilities | Health Care and Social Assistance | Comprises: establishments (e.g., group homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities) primarily engaged in providing residential care services for persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These facilities may provide some health care, though the focus is room, board, protective supervision, and counseling; establishments primarily engaged in providing residential care and treatment for patients with mental health and substance abuse illnesses. These establishments provide room, board, supervision, and counseling services. Although medical services may be available at these establishments, they are incidental to the counseling, mental rehabilitation, and support services offered. These establishments generally provide a wide range of social services in addition to counseling. Illustrative Examples: Alcoholism or drug addiction rehabilitation facilities (except licensed hospitals), Psychiatric convalescent homes or hospitals, Mental health halfway houses, Residential group homes for the emotionally disturbed; establishments primarily engaged in providing residential care (except residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential mental health and substance abuse facilities, continuing care retirement communities, and assisted living facilities for the elderly). These establishments also provide supervision and personal care services. Illustrative Examples: Boot or disciplinary camps (except correctional) for delinquent youth, Group homes for the hearing or visually impaired, Child group foster homes, Halfway group homes for delinquents or ex-offenders, Delinquent youth halfway group homes, Homes for unwed mothers, Group homes for the disabled without nursing care, Orphanages. |
Retail sale of automotive fuel | Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods | This class includes retail sale of fuel (motor spirit, gasoline, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas) for motor vehicles and motorcycles, or of the same fuels for use in boats. This activity is often combined with sales of lubricating products, cooling products, cleaning and all other kinds of products for motor vehicles or even for other purposes, e.g. kerosene. If the main object, however, is the sale of automotive fuel or lubricants, they remain classified here. |
Rubber and plastics hoses and belting manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing rubber hose and/or plastics (reinforced) hose and belting from natural and synthetic rubber and/or plastics resins. Establishments manufacturing garden hoses from purchased hose are included in this industry. |
Sanitary paper product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in converting purchased sanitary paper stock or wadding into sanitary paper products, such as facial tissues, handkerchiefs, table napkins, toilet paper, towels, disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, and tampons. |
Satellite, telecommunications resellers, and all other telecommunications | Information | Comprises: providing telecommunications services to other establishments in the telecommunications and broadcasting industries by forwarding and receiving communications signals via a system of satellites or reselling satellite telecommunications; purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of telecommunications networks and reselling wired and wireless telecommunications services (except satellite) to businesses and households. Establishments in this industry resell telecommunications; they do not operate transmission facilities and infrastructure. Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are included in this industry; providing specialized telecommunications services, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operation. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in providing satellite terminal stations and associated facilities connected with one or more terrestrial systems and capable of transmitting telecommunications to, and receiving telecommunications from, satellite systems. Establishments providing Internet services or Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services via client-supplied telecommunications connections are also included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Dial-up Internet service providers, VoIP service providers, using client-supplied telecommunications connections, Internet service providers using client-supplied telecommunications connections (e.g., dial-up ISPs), Satellite tracking stations. |
Sawmills and wood preservation | Manufacturing | Comprises: sawing dimension lumber, boards, beams, timbers, poles, ties, shingles, shakes, siding, and wood chips from logs or bolts. Sawmills may plane the rough lumber that they make with a planing machine to achieve smoothness and uniformity of size; (1) treating wood sawed, planed, or shaped in other establishments with creosote or other preservatives, such as alkaline copper quat, copper azole, and sodium borates, to prevent decay and to protect against fire and insects and/or (2) sawing round wood poles, pilings, and posts and treating them with preservatives. |
Scenic and sightseeing transportation and support activities for transportation | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: providing scenic and sightseeing transportation on land, such as sightseeing buses and trolleys, steam train excursions, and horse-drawn sightseeing rides. The services provided are usually local and involve same-day return to place of origin; providing scenic and sightseeing transportation on water. The services provided are usually local and involve same-day return to place of origin. Illustrative Examples: Airboat (i.e., swamp buggy) operation, Excursion boat operation, Charter fishing boat services, Harbor sightseeing tours, Dinner cruises; providing scenic and sightseeing transportation (except on land and water). The services provided are usually local and involve same-day return to place of departure. Illustrative Examples: Aerial cable cars, scenic and sightseeing operation, Helicopter rides, scenic and sightseeing operation, Aerial tramways, scenic and sightseeing operation, Hot air balloon rides, scenic and sightseeing operation, Glider excursions; providing air traffic control services to regulate the flow of air traffic; (1) operating international, national, or civil airports, or public flying fields or (2) supporting airport operations, such as rental of hangar space, and providing baggage handling and/or cargo handling services; providing specialized services for air transportation (except air traffic control and other airport operations). Illustrative Examples: Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversions, overhauls, rebuilding), Aircraft passenger screening security services, Aircraft testing services; providing specialized services for railroad transportation including servicing, routine repairing (except factory conversion, overhaul, or rebuilding of rolling stock), and maintaining rail cars; loading and unloading rail cars; and operating independent terminals; operating ports, harbors (including docking and pier facilities), or canals; providing stevedoring and other marine cargo handling services (except warehousing); providing navigational services to shipping. Marine salvage establishments are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Docking and undocking marine vessel services, Piloting services, water transportation, Marine vessel traffic reporting services, Tugboat services, harbor operation; providing services to water transportation (except port and harbor operations; marine cargo handling services; and navigational services to shipping). Illustrative Examples: Floating drydocks (i.e., routine repair and maintenance of ships), Ship scaling services, Marine cargo checkers and surveyors; providing services (except motor vehicle towing) to road network users. Illustrative Examples: Bridge, tunnel, and highway operations, Pilot car services (i.e., wide load warning services), Driving services (e.g., automobile, truck delivery), Truck or weighing station operations; arranging transportation of freight between shippers and carriers. These establishments are usually known as freight forwarders, marine shipping agents, or customs brokers and offer a combination of services spanning transportation modes; packing, crating, and otherwise preparing goods for transportation; providing support activities to transportation (except for air transportation; rail transportation; water transportation; road transportation; freight transportation arrangement; and packing and crating). Illustrative Examples: Arrangement of vanpools or carpools, Stockyards (i.e., not for fattening or selling livestock), Independent pipeline terminal facilities |
Scientific research and development services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in conducting nanotechnology research and experimental development. Nanotechnology research and experimental development involves the study of matter at the nanoscale (i.e., a scale of about 1 to 100 nanometers). This research and development in nanotechnology may result in development of new nanotechnology processes or in prototypes of new or altered materials and/or products that may be reproduced, utilized, or implemented by various industries; establishments primarily engaged in conducting biotechnology (except nanobiotechnology) research and experimental development. Biotechnology (except nanobiotechnology) research and experimental development involves the study of the use of microorganisms and cellular and biomolecular processes to develop or alter living or non-living materials. This research and development in biotechnology (except nanobiotechnology) may result in development of new biotechnology (except nanobiotechnology) processes or in prototypes of new or genetically-altered products that may be reproduced, utilized, or implemented by various industries. Illustrative Examples: Cloning research and experimental development laboratories, DNA technologies (e.g., microarrays) research and experimental development laboratories, Nucleic acid chemistry research and experimental development laboratories, Protein engineering research and experimental development laboratories, Recombinant DNA research and experimental development laboratories; establishments primarily engaged in conducting research and experimental development (except nanotechnology and biotechnology research and experimental development) in the physical, engineering, and life sciences, such as agriculture, electronics, environmental, biology, botany, computers, chemistry, food, fisheries, forests, geology, health, mathematics, medicine, oceanography, pharmacy, physics, veterinary and other allied subjects; establishments primarily engaged in conducting research and analyses in cognitive development, sociology, psychology, language, behavior, economic, and other social science and humanities research. |
Sea and coastal water transport | Transport, storage and communications | This class includes transport of passengers or freight overseas and coastwise. Transport via great lakes is included. |
Seafood product preparation and packaging | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) canning seafood (including soup); (2) smoking, salting, and drying seafood; (3) eviscerating fresh fish by removing heads, fins, scales, bones, and entrails; (4) shucking and packing fresh shellfish; (5) processing marine fats and oils; and (6) freezing seafood. Establishments known as "floating factory ships" that are engaged in the gathering and processing of seafood into canned seafood products are included in this industry; one or more of the following: (1) canning seafood (including soup); (2) smoking, salting, and drying seafood; (3) eviscerating fresh fish by removing heads, fins, scales, bones, and entrails; (4) shucking and packing fresh shellfish; (5) processing marine fats and oils; and (6) freezing seafood. Establishments known as "floating factory ships" that are engaged in the gathering and processing of seafood into canned seafood products are included in this industry. |
Search, detection, and navigation instruments manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instruments. Examples of products made by these establishments are aircraft instruments (except engine), flight recorders, navigational instruments and systems, radar systems and equipment, and sonar systems and equipment. |
Seasoning and dressing manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing mayonnaise, salad dressing, vinegar, mustard, horseradish, soy sauce, tarter sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and other prepared sauces (except tomato-based and gravy); (1) manufacturing spices, table salt, seasonings, flavoring extracts (except coffee and meat), and natural food colorings and/or (2) manufacturing dry mix food preparations, such as salad dressing mixes, gravy and sauce mixes, frosting mixes, and other dry mix preparations. |
Securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage | Finance and Insurance | Comprises: underwriting, originating, and/or maintaining markets for issues of securities. Investment bankers act as principals (i.e., investors who buy or sell on their own account) in firm commitment transactions or act as agents in best effort and standby commitments. This industry also includes establishments acting as principals in buying or selling securities generally on a spread basis, such as securities dealers or stock option dealers. Illustrative Examples: Bond dealing (i.e., acting as a principal in dealing securities to investors), Stock options dealing, Securities underwriting; acting as agents (i.e., brokers) between buyers and sellers in buying or selling securities on a commission or transaction fee basis. Illustrative Examples: Mutual fund agencies (i.e., brokerages), Stock brokerages, Securities brokerages; acting as principals (i.e., investors who buy or sell for their own account) in buying or selling spot or futures commodity contracts or options, such as precious metals, foreign currency, oil, or agricultural products, generally on a spread basis; acting as agents (i.e., brokers) in buying or selling spot or futures commodity contracts or options on a commission or transaction fee basis. Illustrative Examples: Commodity contracts brokerages, Financial futures brokerages, Commodity futures brokerages; furnishing physical or electronic marketplaces for the purpose of facilitating the buying and selling of stocks, stock options, bonds, or commodity contracts; acting as principals (except investment bankers, securities dealers, and commodity contracts dealers) in buying or selling financial contracts generally on a spread basis. Principals are investors that buy or sell for their own account. Illustrative Examples: Investment clubs, Tax liens dealing (i.e., acting as a principal in dealing tax liens to investors), Mineral royalties or leases dealing (i.e., acting as a principal in dealing royalties or leases to investors), Venture capital companies; managing the portfolio assets (i.e., funds) of others on a fee or commission basis. Establishments in this industry have the authority to make investment decisions, and they derive fees based on the size and/or overall performance of the portfolio. Illustrative Examples: Managing trusts, Pension fund managing, Mutual fund managing, Portfolio fund managing. |
Semiconductor and related device manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing semiconductors and related solid-state devices. Examples of products made by these establishments are integrated circuits, memory chips, microprocessors, diodes, transistors, solar cells and other optoelectronic devices. |
Semiconductor machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wafer processing equipment, semiconductor assembly and packaging equipment, and other semiconductor making machinery. |
Services to buildings and dwellings | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in exterminating and controlling birds, mosquitoes, rodents, termites, and other insects and pests (except for crop production and forestry production). Establishments providing fumigation services are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in cleaning building interiors, interiors of transportation equipment (e.g., aircraft, rail cars, ships), and/or windows. Illustrative Examples: Custodial services, Service station cleaning and degreasing services, Housekeeping (i.e., cleaning) services, Washroom sanitation services, Maid (i.e., cleaning) services; (1) establishments primarily engaged in providing landscape care and maintenance services and/or installing trees, shrubs, plants, lawns, or gardens and (2) establishments primarily engaged in providing these services along with the design of landscape plans and/or the construction (i.e., installation) of walkways, retaining walls, decks, fences, ponds, and similar structures; establishments primarily engaged in cleaning and dyeing used rugs, carpets, and upholstery; establishments primarily engaged in providing services to buildings and dwellings (except exterminating and pest control; janitorial; landscaping care and maintenance; and carpet and upholstery cleaning). Illustrative Examples: Building exterior cleaning services (except sandblasting, window cleaning), Swimming pool cleaning and maintenance services, Chimney cleaning services, Ventilation duct cleaning services, Drain or gutter cleaning services. |
Ship building and repairing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating shipyards. Shipyards are fixed facilities with drydocks and fabrication equipment capable of building a ship, defined as watercraft typically suitable or intended for other than personal or recreational use. Activities of shipyards include the construction of ships, their repair, conversion and alteration, the production of prefabricated ship and barge sections, and specialized services, such as ship scaling. Illustrative Examples: Barge building, Cargo ship building, Drilling and production platforms, floating, oil and gas, building, Passenger ship building, Submarine building. |
Showcase, partition, shelving, and locker manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wood and nonwood office and store fixtures, shelving, lockers, frames, partitions, and related fabricated products of wood and nonwood materials, including plastics laminated fixture tops. The products are made on a stock or custom basis and may be assembled or unassembled (i.e., knockdown). Establishments exclusively making furniture parts (e.g., frames) are included in this industry. |
Sign manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing signs and related displays of all materials (except printing paper and paperboard signs, notices, displays). |
Single-family residential structures | Construction | Comprises: general contractor establishments primarily responsible for the entire construction of new single-family housing, such as single-family detached houses and town houses or row houses where each housing unit (1) is separated from its neighbors by a ground-to-roof wall and (2) has no housing units constructed above or below. This industry includes general contractors responsible for the on-site assembly of modular and prefabricated houses. Single-family housing design-build firms and single-family construction management firms acting as general contractors are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in building new homes on land that is owned or controlled by the builder rather than the homebuyer or investor. The land is included with the sale of the home. Establishments in this industry build single-family and/or multifamily homes. These establishments are often referred to as merchant builders, but are also known as production or for-sale builders. |
Small electrical appliance manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing small electric appliances and electric housewares, household-type fans (except attic fans), household-type vacuum cleaners, and other electric household-type floor care machines. Illustrative Examples: Bath fans, residential, manufacturing, Carpet and floor cleaning equipment, household-type electric, manufacturing, Ceiling fans, residential, manufacturing, Curling irons, household-type electric, manufacturing, Electric blankets manufacturing, Portable cooking appliances (except microwave, convection ovens), household-type electric, manufacturing, Portable electric space heaters manufacturing, Portable hair dryers, electric, manufacturing, Portable humidifiers and dehumidifiers manufacturing, Scissors, electric, manufacturing, Ventilating and exhaust fans (except attic fans), household-type, manufacturing. |
Snack food manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) salting, roasting, drying, cooking, or canning nuts; (2) processing grains or seeds into snacks; and (3) manufacturing peanut butter; manufacturing snack foods (except roasted nuts and peanut butter). Illustrative Examples: Corn chips and related corn snacks manufacturing, Popped popcorn (except candy-covered) manufacturing, Pork rinds manufacturing, Potato chips manufacturing, Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing, Tortilla chips manufacturing. |
Soap and cleaning compound manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing and packaging soaps and other detergents, such as laundry and dishwashing detergents; toothpaste gels and tooth powders; and natural glycerin; manufacturing and packaging polishes and specialty cleaning preparations; (1) manufacturing bulk surface active agents for use as wetting agents, emulsifiers, and penetrants and/or (2) manufacturing textile and leather finishing agents used to reduce tension or speed the drying process. |
Soft drink and ice manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing soft drinks and artificially carbonated waters; purifying and bottling water (including naturally carbonated); manufacturing ice. |
Software publishers | Information | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in computer software publishing or publishing and reproduction. Establishments in Carry out operations necessary for producing and distributing computer software, such as designing, providing documentation, assisting in installation, and providing support services to software purchasers. These establishments may design, develop, and publish, or publish only. These establishments may publish and distribute software remotely through subscriptions and downloads. |
Sound recording industries | Information | Comprises: acquiring and registering copyrights for musical compositions in accordance with law and promoting and authorizing the use of these compositions in recordings, radio, television, motion pictures, live performances, print, or other media. Establishments in this industry represent the interests of the songwriter or other owners of musical compositions to produce revenues from the use of such works, generally through licensing agreements. These establishments may own the copyright or act as administrator of the music copyrights on behalf of copyright owners. Publishers of music books and sheet music are included in this industry; providing the facilities and technical expertise for sound recording in a studio. This industry includes establishments that provide audio production and postproduction services to produce master recordings. These establishments may provide audio services for film, television, and video productions; record production (e.g., tapes, CDs) and/or releasing, promoting, and distributing sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers, or directly to the public. These establishments contract with artists, arrange and finance the production of original master recordings, and/or produce master recordings themselves, such as audio tapes/cassettes and compact discs. Establishments in this industry hold the copyright to the master recording, or obtain reproduction and distribution rights to master recordings produced by others, and derive most of their revenues from the sales, leasing, licensing, or distribution of master recordings; record production (e.g., tapes, CDs) and/or releasing, promoting, and distributing sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers, or directly to the public. These establishments contract with artists, arrange and finance the production of original master recordings, and/or produce master recordings themselves, such as audio tapes/cassettes and compact discs. Establishments in this industry hold the copyright to the master recording, or obtain reproduction and distribution rights to master recordings produced by others, and derive most of their revenues from the sales, leasing, licensing, or distribution of master recordings; providing sound recording services (except record production, distribution, music publishing, and sound recording in a studio). Establishments in this industry provide services, such as the audio recording of meetings and conferences. |
Soybean and other oilseed processing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in crushing oilseeds and tree nuts, such as soybeans, cottonseeds, linseeds, peanuts, and sunflower seeds. Examples of products produced in these establishments are oilseed oils, cakes, meals, and protein isolates and concentrates. |
Special tool, die, jig, and fixture manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments, known as tool and die shops, primarily engaged in manufacturing special tools and fixtures, such as cutting dies and jigs. |
Specialized design services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in planning, designing, and administering projects in interior spaces to meet the physical and aesthetic needs of people using them, taking into consideration building codes, health and safety regulations, traffic patterns and floor planning, mechanical and electrical needs, and interior fittings and furniture. Interior designers and interior design consultants work in areas, such as hospitality design, health care design, institutional design, commercial and corporate design, and residential design. This industry also includes interior decorating consultants engaged exclusively in providing aesthetic services associated with interior spaces; establishments primarily engaged in creating and developing designs and specifications that optimize the use, value, and appearance of their products. These services can include the determination of the materials, construction, mechanisms, shape, color, and surface finishes of the product, taking into consideration human characteristics and needs, safety, market appeal, and efficiency in production, distribution, use, and maintenance. Establishments providing automobile or furniture industrial design services or industrial design consulting services are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in planning, designing, and managing the production of visual communication in order to convey specific messages or concepts, clarify complex information, or project visual identities. These services can include the design of printed materials, packaging, advertising, signage systems, and corporate identification (logos). This industry also includes commercial artists engaged exclusively in generating drawings and illustrations requiring technical accuracy or interpretative skills. Illustrative Examples: Commercial art studios, Independent commercial or graphic artists, Corporate identification (i.e., logo) design services, Medical art or illustration services, Graphic design consulting services; establishments primarily engaged in providing professional design services (except architectural, landscape architecture, engineering, interior, industrial, graphic, and computer systems design). Illustrative Examples: Costume design services (except independent theatrical costume designers), Jewelry design services, Fashion design services, Float design services, Shoe design services, Fur design services, Textile design services. |
Spectator sports | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Comprises: professional or semiprofessional sports teams or clubs primarily engaged in participating in live sporting events, such as baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, and jai alai games, before a paying audience. These establishments may or may not operate their own arena, stadium, or other facility for presenting these events; establishments primarily engaged in operating racetracks. These establishments may also present and/or promote the events, such as auto, dog, and horse races, held in these facilities; (1) independent athletes, such as professional or semiprofessional golfers, boxers, and race car drivers, primarily engaged in participating in live sporting or racing events before a paying audience; (2) owners of racing participants, such as cars, dogs, and horses, primarily engaged in entering them in racing events or other spectator events; and (3) establishments, such as sports trainers, primarily engaged in providing specialized services required to support participants in sports events or competitions. |
Speed changer, industrial high-speed drive, and gear manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing gears, speed changers, and industrial high-speed drives (except hydrostatic). |
Sporting and athletic goods manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing sporting and athletic goods (except apparel and footwear). |
Spring and wire product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing springs from purchased wire, strip, or rod; manufacturing fabricated wire products (except springs) made from purchased wire. Illustrative Examples: Barbed wire made from purchased wire, Chain link fencing and fence gates made from purchased wire, Metal baskets made from purchased wire, Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire, Noninsulated wire cable made from purchased wire, Paper clips made from purchased wire, Woven wire cloth made from purchased wire |
Stationery product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: converting paper or paperboard into products used for writing, filing, art work, and similar applications. Illustrative Examples: Computer paper, die-cut, made from purchased paper, Die-cut paper products for office use made from purchased paper or paperboard, Envelopes (i.e., mailing, stationery) made from any material, Stationery made from purchased paper, Tablets (e.g., memo, note, writing) made from purchased paper, Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, cash register) made from purchased paper; converting purchased sanitary paper stock or wadding into sanitary paper products, such as facial tissues, handkerchiefs, table napkins, toilet paper, towels, disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, and tampons. |
Steam and hot water supply | Electricity, gas and water supply | This class includes production, collection and distribution of steam and hot water for heating, power and other purposes. |
Steel product manufacturing from purchased steel | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing welded, riveted, or seamless pipe and tube from purchased iron or steel; rolling or drawing shapes (except wire), such as plate, sheet, strip, rod, and bar, from purchased steel; drawing wire from purchased steel. |
Stone mining and quarrying | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site and/or mining or quarrying dimension stone (i.e., rough blocks and/or slabs of stone); (1) establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining or quarrying crushed and broken limestone (including related rocks, such as dolomite, cement rock, marl, travertine, and calcareous tufa) and (2) preparation plants primarily engaged in beneficiating limestone (e.g., grinding or pulverizing); (1) establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, and/or mining or quarrying crushed and broken granite (including related rocks, such as gneiss, syenite (except nepheline), and diorite) and (2) preparation plants primarily engaged in beneficiating granite (e.g., grinding or pulverizing). (1) establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site and/or mining or quarrying crushed and broken stone (except limestone and granite); (2) preparation plants primarily engaged in beneficiating (e.g., grinding and pulverizing) stone (except limestone and granite); and (3) establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying bituminous limestone and bituminous sandstone. Illustrative Examples: Bituminous limestone mining and/or beneficiating, Marble crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating, Bituminous sandstone mining and/or beneficiating, Sandstone crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating |
Storage battery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing storage batteries. Illustrative Examples: Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing, Lithium storage batteries manufacturing, Rechargeable nickel-cadmium (NICAD) batteries manufacturing. |
Sugar and confectionery product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing refined beet sugar from sugar beets; (1) processing sugarcane and/or (2) refining cane sugar from raw cane sugar; (1) processing sugarcane and/or (2) refining cane sugar from raw cane sugar; manufacturing nonchocolate confectioneries. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in retailing nonchocolate confectionery products not for immediate consumption made on the premises; shelling, roasting, and grinding cacao beans and making chocolate cacao products and chocolate confectioneries; manufacturing chocolate confectioneries from chocolate produced elsewhere. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in retailing chocolate confectionery products not for immediate consumption made on the premises from chocolate made elsewhere. |
Support activities for agriculture and forestry | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: ginning cotton; performing a soil preparation activity or crop production service, such as plowing, fertilizing, seed bed preparation, planting, cultivating, and crop protecting services; mechanical harvesting, picking, and combining of crops, and related activities. The machinery used is provided by the servicing establishment; performing services on crops, subsequent to their harvest, with the intent of preparing them for market or further processing. These establishments provide postharvest activities, such as crop cleaning, sun drying, shelling, fumigating, curing, sorting, grading, packing, and cooling; supplying labor for agricultural production or harvesting; providing farm management services on a contract or fee basis usually to citrus groves, orchards, or vineyards. These establishments always provide management and may arrange or contract for the partial or the complete operations of the farm establishment(s) they manage. Operational activities may include cultivating, harvesting, and/or other specialized agricultural support activities; performing support activities related to raising livestock (e.g., cattle, goats, hogs, horses, poultry, sheep). These establishments may perform one or more of the following: (1) breeding services for animals, including companion animals (e.g., cats, dogs, pet birds); (2) pedigree record services; (3) boarding horses; (4) dairy herd improvement activities; (5) livestock spraying; and (6) sheep dipping and shearing; performing particular support activities related to timber production, wood technology, forestry economics and marketing, and forest protection. These establishments may provide support activities for forestry, such as estimating timber, forest firefighting, forest pest control, treating burned forests from the air for reforestation or on an emergency basis, and consulting on wood attributes and reforestation. |
Support activities for printing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing prepress and postpress services in support of printing activities. Prepress services may include such things as platemaking, typesetting, trade binding, and sample mounting. Postpress services include such things as book or paper bronzing, die cutting, edging, embossing, folding, gilding, gluing, and indexing. |
Surgical and medical instrument manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing medical, surgical, ophthalmic, and veterinary instruments and apparatus (except electrotherapeutic, electromedical and irradiation apparatus). Examples of products made by these establishments are syringes, hypodermic needles, anesthesia apparatus, blood transfusion equipment, catheters, surgical clamps, and medical thermometers. |
Surgical appliance and supplies manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing surgical appliances and supplies. Examples of products made by these establishments are orthopedic devices, prosthetic appliances, surgical dressings, crutches, surgical sutures, personal industrial safety devices (except protective eyewear), hospital beds, and operating room tables. |
Switchgear and switchboard apparatus manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing switchgear and switchboard apparatus. Illustrative Examples: Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing, Control panels, electric power distribution, manufacturing, Ducts for electrical switchboard apparatus manufacturing, Fuses, electric, manufacturing, Power switching equipment manufacturing, Switches, electric power (except pushbutton, snap, solenoid, tumbler), manufacturing. |
Synthetic dye and pigment manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing synthetic organic and inorganic dyes and pigments, such as lakes and toners (except electrostatic and photographic). |
Synthetic rubber and artificial and synthetic fibers and filaments manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing synthetic rubber; (1) manufacturing cellulosic (e.g., rayon, acetate) and noncellulosic (e.g., nylon, polyolefin, polyester) fibers and filaments in the form of monofilament, filament yarn, staple, or tow or (2) manufacturing and texturizing cellulosic and noncellulosic fibers and filaments; (1) manufacturing cellulosic (e.g., rayon, acetate) and noncellulosic (e.g., nylon, polyolefin, polyester) fibers and filaments in the form of monofilament, filament yarn, staple, or tow or (2) manufacturing and texturizing cellulosic and noncellulosic fibers and filaments. |
Telephone apparatus manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wire telephone and data communications equipment. These products may be stand-alone or board-level components of a larger system. Examples of products made by these establishments are central office switching equipment, cordless and wire telephones (except cellular), PBX equipment, telephone answering machines, LAN modems, multi-user modems, and other data communications equipment, such as bridges, routers, and gateways. |
Textile and fabric finishing and fabric coating mills | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) establishments primarily engaged in finishing textiles, fabrics, and apparel and (2) establishments of converters who buy fabric goods in the grey, have them finished on contract, and sell at wholesale. Finishing operations include: bleaching, dyeing, printing (e.g., roller, screen, flock, plisse), stonewashing, and other mechanical finishing, such as preshrinking, shrinking, sponging, calendering, mercerizing, and napping; as well as cleaning, scouring, and the preparation of natural fibers and raw stock; (1) establishments primarily engaged in finishing textiles, fabrics, and apparel and (2) establishments of converters who buy fabric goods in the grey, have them finished on contract, and sell at wholesale. Finishing operations include: bleaching, dyeing, printing (e.g., roller, screen, flock, plisse), stonewashing, and other mechanical finishing, such as preshrinking, shrinking, sponging, calendering, mercerizing, and napping; as well as cleaning, scouring, and the preparation of natural fibers and raw stock; establishments primarily engaged in coating, laminating, varnishing, waxing, and rubberizing textiles and apparel. |
Tire manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing tires and inner tubes from natural and synthetic rubber; retreading or rebuilding tires. |
Tobacco product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: (1) stemming and redrying tobacco and/or (2) manufacturing cigarettes or other tobacco products. Illustrative Examples: Chewing tobacco manufacturing, Cigar manufacturing, Cigarettes manufacturing (except electronic), Snuff manufacturing, Prepared pipe tobacco manufacturing, Tobacco leaf processing and aging; (1) stemming and redrying tobacco and/or (2) manufacturing cigarettes or other tobacco products. Illustrative Examples: Chewing tobacco manufacturing, Cigar manufacturing, Cigarettes manufacturing (except electronic), Snuff manufacturing, Prepared pipe tobacco manufacturing, Tobacco leaf processing and aging; (1) stemming and redrying tobacco and/or (2) manufacturing cigarettes or other tobacco products. Illustrative Examples: Chewing tobacco manufacturing, Cigar manufacturing, Cigarettes manufacturing (except electronic), Snuff manufacturing, Prepared pipe tobacco manufacturing, Tobacco leaf processing and aging |
Toilet preparation manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in preparing, blending, compounding, and packaging toilet preparations, such as perfumes, shaving preparations, hair preparations, face creams, lotions (including sunscreens), and other cosmetic preparations. |
Totalizing fluid meter and counting device manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing totalizing (i.e., registering) fluid meters and counting devices. Examples of products made by these establishments are gas consumption meters, water consumption meters, parking meters, taxi meters, motor vehicle gauges, and fare collection equipment. |
Transit and ground passenger transportation | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: operating local and suburban ground passenger transit systems using more than one mode of transport over regular routes and on regular schedules within a metropolitan area and its adjacent nonurban areas; operating local and suburban commuter rail systems over regular routes and on a regular schedule within a metropolitan area and its adjacent nonurban areas. Commuter rail is usually characterized by reduced fares, multiple ride and commutation tickets, and mostly used by passengers during the morning and evening peak periods; operating local and suburban passenger transportation systems using buses or other motor vehicles over regular routes and on regular schedules within a metropolitan area and its adjacent nonurban areas; operating local and suburban ground passenger transit systems (except mixed mode transit systems, commuter rail systems, and buses and other motor vehicles) over regular routes and on regular schedules within a metropolitan area and its adjacent nonurban areas. Illustrative Examples: Commuter cable car systems (i.e., stand-alone), Light rail systems (i.e., stand-alone), Commuter tramway systems (i.e., stand-alone), Monorail transit systems (i.e., stand-alone), Commuter trolley systems (i.e., stand-alone); providing bus passenger transportation over regular routes and on regular schedules, principally outside a single metropolitan area and its adjacent nonurban areas; providing passenger transportation by automobile or van, not operated over regular routes and on regular schedules. Establishments of taxicab owner/operators, taxicab fleet operators, or taxicab organizations are included in this industry; providing an array of specialty and luxury passenger transportation services via limousine or luxury sedan generally on a reserved basis. These establishments do not operate over regular routes and on regular schedules; providing buses and other motor vehicles to transport pupils to and from school or employees to and from work; providing buses for charter. These establishments provide bus services to meet customers' road transportation needs and generally do not operate over fixed routes and on regular schedules; providing special needs transportation (except to and from school or work) to the infirm, elderly, or handicapped. These establishments may use specially equipped vehicles to provide passenger transportation; providing ground passenger transportation (except urban transit systems; interurban and rural bus transportation, taxi and/or limousine services (except shuttle services), school and employee bus transportation, charter bus services, and special needs transportation). Establishments primarily engaged in operating shuttle services and vanpools are included in this industry. Shuttle services establishments generally provide travel on regular routes and on regular schedules between hotels, airports, or other destination points; towing light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long-distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as storage and emergency road repair services. |
Transmission of electricity | Electricity, gas and water supply | Transmission of electric energy through power lines or other means from power plants to distribution networks or directly to consumers. |
Travel arrangement and reservation services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in acting as agents in selling travel, tour, and accommodation services to the general public and commercial clients; establishments primarily engaged in arranging and assembling tours. The tours are sold through travel agencies or tour operators. Travel or wholesale tour operators are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in marketing and promoting communities and facilities to businesses and leisure travelers through a range of activities, such as assisting organizations in locating meeting and convention sites; providing travel information on area attractions, lodging accommodations, restaurants; providing maps; and organizing group tours of local historical, recreational, and cultural attractions; establishments (except travel agencies, tour operators, and convention and visitors bureaus) primarily engaged in providing travel arrangement and reservation services. Illustrative Examples: Condominium time-share exchange services, Ticket (e.g., airline, bus, cruise ship, sports, theatrical) offices, Reservation (e.g., airline, car rental, hotel, restaurant) services, Ticket (e.g., amusement, sports, theatrical) agencies, Road and travel services automobile clubs. |
Travel trailer and camper manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing travel trailers and campers designed to attach to motor vehicles; (2) manufacturing pick-up coaches (i.e., campers) and caps (i.e., covers) for mounting on pick-up trucks; and (3) manufacturing automobile, utility and light-truck trailers. Travel trailers do not have their own motor but are designed to be towed by a motor unit, such as an automobile or a light truck. Illustrative Examples: Automobile transporter trailers, single car, manufacturing, Camper units, slide-in, for pick-up trucks, manufacturing, Camping trailers and chassis manufacturing, Horse trailers (except fifth-wheel-type) manufacturing, Pick-up canopies, caps, or covers manufacturing, Travel trailers, recreational, manufacturing, Utility trailers manufacturing. |
Truck trailer manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing truck trailers, truck trailer chassis, cargo container chassis, detachable trailer bodies, and detachable trailer chassis for sale separately. |
Truck transportation | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing local general freight trucking. General freight trucking establishments handle a wide variety of commodities, generally palletized and transported in a container or van trailer. Local general freight trucking establishments usually provide trucking within a metropolitan area which may cross state lines. Generally the trips are same-day return; establishments primarily engaged in providing long-distance general freight truckload (TL) trucking. These long-distance general freight truckload carrier establishments provide full truck movement of freight from origin to destination. The shipment of freight on a truck is characterized as a full single load not combined with other shipments; establishments primarily engaged in providing long-distance, general freight, less than truckload (LTL) trucking. LTL carriage is characterized as multiple shipments combined onto a single truck for multiple deliveries within a network. These establishments are generally characterized by the following network activities: local pick-up, local sorting and terminal operations, line-haul, destination sorting and terminal operations, and local delivery; establishments primarily engaged in providing local or long-distance trucking of used household, used institutional, or used commercial furniture and equipment. Incidental packing and storage activities are often provided by these establishments; establishments primarily engaged in providing local, specialized trucking. Local trucking establishments provide trucking within a metropolitan area that may cross state lines. Generally the trips are same-day return. Illustrative Examples: Local agricultural products trucking, Local dump trucking (e.g., gravel, sand, top-soil), Local boat hauling, Local livestock trucking, Local bulk liquids trucking; establishments primarily engaged in providing long-distance specialized trucking. These establishments provide trucking between metropolitan areas that may cross North American country borders. Illustrative Examples: Long-distance automobile carrier trucking, Long-distance refrigerated product trucking, Long-distance bulk liquid trucking, Long-distance trucking of waste, Long-distance hazardous material trucking. |
Turbine and turbine generator set units manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing turbines (except aircraft); and complete turbine generator set units, such as steam, hydraulic, gas, and wind. |
Turned product and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: establishments known as precision turned manufacturers primarily engaged in machining precision products of all materials on a job or order basis. Generally precision turned product jobs are large volume using machines, such as automatic screw machines, rotary transfer machines, computer numerically controlled (CNC) lathes, or turning centers; establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing metal bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, washers, and other industrial fasteners using machines, such as headers, threaders, and nut forming machines. |
Upholstered household furniture manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing upholstered household-type furniture. The furniture may be made on a stock or custom basis.. |
Urethane and other foam product (except polystyrene) manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing plastics foam products (except polystyrene). |
Valve and fittings other than plumbing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing industrial valves and valves for water works and municipal water systems. Illustrative Examples: Complete fire hydrants manufacturing, Industrial-type ball valves manufacturing, Industrial-type butterfly valves manufacturing, Industrial-type check valves manufacturing, Industrial-type gate valves manufacturing, Industrial-type globe valves manufacturing, Industrial-type plug valves manufacturing, Industrial-type solenoid valves (except fluid power) manufacturing, Industrial-type steam traps manufacturing, Valves for nuclear applications manufacturing; manufacturing fluid power valves and hose fittings. Illustrative Examples: Fluid power aircraft subassemblies manufacturing, Hose assemblies for fluid power systems manufacturing, Hydraulic and pneumatic hose and tube fittings manufacturing, Hydraulic and pneumatic valves manufacturing. |
Vegetable and melon farming | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Comprises: growing potatoes and/or producing seed potatoes; in one or more of the following: (1) growing melons and/or vegetables (except potatoes; dry peas; dry beans; field, silage, or seed corn; and sugar beets); (2) producing vegetable and/or melon seeds; and (3) growing vegetable and/or melon bedding plants. Illustrative Examples: Carrot farming, Squash farming, Green bean farming, Tomato farming, Watermelon farming, Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), Vegetable (except potato) farming, Pepper farming (e.g., bell, chili, green, red, sweet peppers). |
Vending, commercial laundry, and other commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing commercial and service industry equipment (except optical instruments and lenses, and photographic and photocopying equipment). Illustrative Examples: Calculators manufacturing, Carnival and amusement park rides manufacturing, Car washing machinery manufacturing, Commercial-type coffee makers and urns manufacturing, Commercial-type cooking equipment (i.e., fryers, microwave ovens, ovens, ranges) manufacturing, Industrial and commercial-type vacuum cleaners manufacturing, Laundry machinery and equipment (except household-type) manufacturing, Mechanical carpet sweepers manufacturing, Motor vehicle alignment equipment manufacturing, Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing, Teaching machines (e.g., flight simulators) manufacturing, Vending machines manufacturing, Water treatment equipment manufacturing. |
Veneer, plywood, and engineered wood product manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing hardwood veneer and/or hardwood plywood; manufacturing fabricated or laminated wood arches and/or other fabricated or laminated wood structural members. Illustrative Examples: Finger joint lumber manufacturing, I-joists, wood, fabricating, Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) manufacturing, Parallel strand lumber manufacturing, Timbers, structural, glue laminated or pre-engineered wood, manufacturing; manufacturing reconstituted wood sheets and boards. Illustrative Examples: Medium density fiberboard (MDF) manufacturing, Oriented strandboard (OSB) manufacturing, Particleboard manufacturing, Reconstituted wood sheets and boards manufacturing, Waferboard manufacturing |
Veterinary services | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Comprises establishments of licensed veterinary practitioners primarily engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine, dentistry, or surgery for animals; and establishments primarily engaged in providing testing services for licensed veterinary practitioners. Illustrative Examples: Animal hospitals, Veterinary clinics, Veterinarians' offices, Veterinary testing laboratories. |
Warehousing and storage | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: operating merchandise warehousing and storage facilities. These establishments generally handle goods in containers, such as boxes, barrels, and/or drums, using equipment, such as forklifts, pallets, and racks. They are not specialized in handling bulk products of any particular type, size, or quantity of goods or products; operating refrigerated warehousing and storage facilities. Establishments primarily engaged in the storage of furs for the trade are included in this industry. The services provided by these establishments include blast freezing, tempering, and modified atmosphere storage services; operating bulk farm product warehousing and storage facilities (except refrigerated). Grain elevators primarily engaged in storage are included in this industry; operating warehousing and storage facilities (except general merchandise, refrigerated, and farm product warehousing and storage). Illustrative Examples: Bulk petroleum storage, Lumber storage terminals, Document storage and warehousing, Whiskey warehousing. |
Waste management and remediation services | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Comprises: one or more of the following: (1) collecting and/or hauling nonhazardous solid waste (i.e., garbage) within a local area; (2) operating nonhazardous solid waste transfer stations; and (3) collecting and/or hauling mixed recyclable materials within a local area; collecting and/or hauling hazardous waste within a local area and/or operating hazardous waste transfer stations. Hazardous waste collection establishments may be responsible for the identification, treatment, packaging, and labeling of waste for the purposes of transport; collecting and/or hauling waste (except nonhazardous solid waste and hazardous waste) within a local area. Establishments engaged in brush or rubble removal services are included in this industry; (1) operating treatment and/or disposal facilities for hazardous waste or (2) the combined activity of collecting and/or hauling of hazardous waste materials within a local area and operating treatment or disposal facilities for hazardous waste; (1) operating landfills for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste or (2) the combined activity of collecting and/or hauling nonhazardous waste materials within a local area and operating landfills for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste. These establishments may produce byproducts, such as methane; operating combustors and incinerators for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste. These establishments may produce byproducts, such as electricity and steam; (1) operating nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except landfills, combustors, incinerators and sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities) or (2) the combined activity of collecting and/or hauling of nonhazardous waste materials within a local area and operating waste treatment or disposal facilities (except landfills, combustors, incinerators and sewer systems, or sewage treatment facilities). Compost dumps are included in this industry; one or more of the following: (1) remediation and cleanup of contaminated buildings, mine sites, soil, or ground water; (2) integrated mine reclamation activities, including demolition, soil remediation, waste water treatment, hazardous material removal, contouring land, and revegetation; and (3) asbestos, lead paint, and other toxic material abatement; (1) operating facilities for separating and sorting recyclable materials from nonhazardous waste streams (i.e., garbage) and/or (2) operating facilities where commingled recyclable materials, such as paper, plastics, used beverage cans, and metals, are sorted into distinct categories; (1) pumping (i.e., cleaning) septic tanks and cesspools and/or (2) renting and/or servicing portable toilets; providing waste management services (except waste collection, waste treatment and disposal, remediation, operation of materials recovery facilities, septic tank pumping and related services, and waste management consulting services). Illustrative Examples: Beach cleaning and maintenance services, Sewer or storm basin cleanout services, Catch basin cleaning services, Tank cleaning and disposal services, commercial or industrial, Sewer cleaning and rodding services. |
Waste water treatment, food | Other community, social and personal service activities | Removal of waste from drains, sewers, or other designated areas. |
Waste water treatment, other | Transport, storage and communications | Removal of waste from drains, sewers, or other designated areas. |
Watch, clock, and other measuring and controlling device manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing measuring and controlling devices (except search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical instruments and systems; automatic environmental controls for residential, commercial, and appliance use; instruments for measurement, display, and control of industrial process variables; totalizing fluid meters and counting devices; instruments for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals; analytical laboratory instruments; irradiation equipment; and electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus). Illustrative Examples: Aircraft engine instruments manufacturing, Automotive emissions testing equipment manufacturing, Clocks assembling, Meteorological instruments manufacturing, Physical properties testing and inspection equipment manufacturing, Polygraph machines manufacturing, Radiation detection and monitoring instruments manufacturing, Surveying instruments manufacturing, Thermometers, liquid-in-glass and bimetal types (except medical), manufacturing, Watches and parts (except crystals) manufacturing. |
Water transportation | Transportation and Warehousing | Comprises: establishments primarily engaged in providing deep sea transportation of cargo to or from foreign ports; establishments primarily engaged in providing deep sea transportation of passengers to or from foreign ports; establishments primarily engaged in providing water transportation of cargo in coastal waters, on the Great Lakes System, or deep seas between ports of the United States, Puerto Rico, and United States island possessions or protectorates. Marine transportation establishments using the facilities of the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority Commission are considered to be using the Great Lakes Water Transportation System. Establishments primarily engaged in providing coastal and/or Great Lakes barge transportation services are included in this industry; establishments primarily engaged in providing water transportation of passengers in coastal waters, the Great Lakes System, or deep seas between ports of the United States, Puerto Rico, and United States island possessions and protectorates. Marine transportation establishments using the facilities of the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority Commission are considered to be using the Great Lakes Water Transportation System; establishments primarily engaged in providing inland water transportation of cargo on lakes, rivers, or intracoastal waterways (except on the Great Lakes System); establishments primarily engaged in providing inland water transportation of passengers on lakes, rivers, or intracoastal waterways (except on the Great Lakes System). |
Water, sewage and other systems | Utilities | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating water treatment plants and/or operating water supply systems. The water supply system may include pumping stations, aqueducts, and/or distribution mains. The water may be used for drinking, irrigation, or other uses; operating sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities that collect, treat, and dispose of waste; providing steam, heated air, or cooled air. The steam distribution may be through mains. |
Wet corn milling | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in wet milling corn and other vegetables (except to make ethyl alcohol). Examples of products made in these establishments are corn sweeteners, such as glucose, dextrose, and fructose; corn oil; and starches (except laundry). |
Wholesale trade | Wholesale Trade | Comprises: the merchant wholesale distribution of new and used passenger automobiles, trucks, trailers, and other motor vehicles, such as motorcycles, motor homes, and snowmobiles; the merchant wholesale distribution of motor vehicle supplies, accessories, tools, and equipment; and new motor vehicle parts (except new tires and tubes); the merchant wholesale distribution of new and/or used tires and tubes for passenger and commercial vehicles; the merchant wholesale distribution of used motor vehicle parts (except used tires and tubes) and establishments primarily engaged in dismantling motor vehicles for the purpose of selling the parts; the merchant wholesale distribution of furniture (except hospital beds, medical furniture, and drafting tables). Illustrative Examples: Household-type furniture merchant wholesalers, Outdoor furniture merchant wholesalers, Mattresses merchant wholesalers, Public building furniture merchant wholesalers, Office furniture merchant wholesalers, Religious furniture merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of home furnishings and/or housewares. Illustrative Examples: Carpet merchant wholesalers, Glassware, household-type, merchant wholesalers, Chinaware, household-type, merchant wholesalers, Household-type cooking utensils merchant wholesalers, Curtains merchant wholesalers, Lamps (i.e., lighting fixtures) merchant wholesalers, Draperies merchant wholesalers, Linens (e.g., bath, bed, table) merchant wholesalers, Floor coverings merchant wholesalers, Window shades and blinds merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of lumber; plywood; reconstituted wood fiber products; wood fencing; doors and windows and their frames (all materials); wood roofing and siding; and/or other wood or metal millwork; the merchant wholesale distribution of stone, cement, lime, construction sand, and gravel; brick; asphalt and concrete mixtures; and/or concrete, stone, and structural clay products; the merchant wholesale distribution of nonwood roofing and nonwood siding and insulation materials; merchant wholesale distribution of manufactured homes (i.e., mobile homes) and/or prefabricated buildings; the merchant wholesale distribution of construction materials (except lumber, plywood, millwork, wood panels, brick, stone, roofing, siding, electrical and wiring supplies, and insulation materials). Illustrative Examples: Flat glass merchant wholesalers, Prefabricated buildings (except wood) merchant wholesalers, Ornamental ironwork merchant wholesalers, Wire fencing and fencing accessories merchant wholesalers, Plate glass merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of photographic equipment and supplies (except office equipment). Illustrative Examples: Photofinishing equipment merchant wholesalers, Television cameras merchant wholesalers, Photographic camera equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers,Video cameras (except household-type) merchant wholesalers, Photographic film and plates merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of office machines and related equipment (except computers and computer peripheral equipment). Illustrative Examples: Accounting machines merchant wholesalers, Mailing machines merchant wholesalers, Calculators and calculating machines merchant wholesalers, Cash registers merchant wholesalers, Security safes merchant wholesalers, Copying machines merchant wholesalers, Microfilm equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of computers, computer peripheral equipment, loaded computer boards, and/or computer software; the merchant wholesale distribution of commercial and related machines and equipment (except photographic equipment and supplies; office equipment; and computers and computer peripheral equipment and software) generally used in restaurants and stores. Illustrative Examples: Balances and scales (except laboratory) merchant wholesalers, Commercial shelving merchant wholesalers, Coin-operated merchandising machine merchant wholesalers, Electrical signs merchant wholesalers, Commercial chinaware merchant wholesalers, Partitions merchant wholesalers, Commercial cooking equipment merchant wholesalers, Store fixtures (except refrigerated) merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of professional medical equipment, instruments, and supplies (except ophthalmic equipment and instruments and goods used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians). Illustrative Examples: Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers, Surgical dressings merchant wholesalers, Electromedical equipment merchant wholesalers, Patient monitoring equipment merchant wholesalers, Hospital beds merchant wholesalers, Prosthetic appliances and supplies merchant wholesalers, Hospital furniture merchant wholesalers, Surgical instruments and apparatus merchant wholesalers, Medical and dental X-ray machines and parts merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment, instruments, and/or goods sold, prescribed, or used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians. Illustrative Examples: Binoculars merchant wholesalers, Optometric equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers, Ophthalmic frames merchant wholesalers, Sunglasses merchant wholesalers, Ophthalmic lenses merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment and supplies (except ophthalmic goods and medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies). Illustrative Examples: Church supplies (except silverware, plated ware) merchant wholesalers, School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers, Drafting tables and instruments merchant wholesalers, Scientific instruments merchant wholesalers, Laboratory equipment (except medical, dental) merchant wholesalers, Surveying equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of products of the primary metals industries. Service centers maintain inventory and may perform functions, such as sawing, shearing, bending, leveling, cleaning, or edging, on a custom basis as part of sales transactions. Illustrative Examples: Cast iron pipe merchant wholesalers, Metal rods merchant wholesalers, Metal bars (except precious) merchant wholesalers, Metal sheets merchant wholesalers, Metal ingots (except precious) merchant wholesalers, Metal spikes merchant wholesalers, Metal pipe merchant wholesalers, Nails merchant wholesalers, Metal plates merchant wholesalers, Noninsulated wire merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of coal, coke, metal ores, and/or nonmetallic minerals (except precious and semiprecious stones and minerals used in construction, such as sand and gravel); the merchant wholesale distribution of electrical construction materials; wiring supplies; electric light fixtures; light bulbs; and/or electrical power equipment for the generation, transmission, distribution, or control of electric energy; the merchant wholesale distribution of household-type gas and electric appliances (except water heaters and heating stoves (i.e., noncooking)), room air-conditioners, and/or household-type audio or video equipment. Illustrative Examples: Household-type sewing machines merchant wholesalers, Household-type radios (including automotive) merchant wholesalers, Household-type video cameras merchant wholesalers, Household-type refrigerators merchant wholesalers, Television sets merchant wholesalers, Toothbrushes, electric, merchant wholesalers, Curling irons, electric, merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of electronic parts and equipment (except electrical apparatus and equipment, wiring supplies, and construction materials; electrical and electronic appliances; and television sets and radios). Illustrative Examples: Blank audio and video tapes merchant wholesalers; Communications equipment merchant wholesalers; Blank compact discs (CDs) merchant wholesalers; Radar equipment merchant wholesalers; Blank digital video discs (DVDs) merchant wholesalers; Telegraph equipment merchant wholesalers; Blank diskettes merchant wholesalers; Telephone equipment merchant wholesalers; Broadcasting equipment merchant wholesalers; Unloaded computer boards merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of hardware, knives, or handtools. Illustrative Examples: Brads merchant wholesalers, Cutlery merchant wholesalers, Knives (except disposable plastics) merchant wholesalers, Power handtools (e.g., drills, saws, sanders) merchant wholesalers, Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers, Staples merchant wholesalers, Handtools (except motor vehicle, machinists' precision) merchant wholesalers, Tacks merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of plumbing equipment, hydronic heating equipment, household-type water heaters, and/or supplies; the merchant wholesale distribution of warm air heating and air-conditioning equipment and supplies. Illustrative Examples: Air pollution control equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers, Non-portable electric baseboard heaters merchant wholesalers, Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers, Warm air central heating equipment merchant wholesalers, Automotive air-conditioners merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of refrigeration equipment (except household-type refrigerators, freezers, and air-conditioners). Illustrative Examples: Cold storage machinery merchant wholesalers, Refrigerated display cases merchant wholesalers, Commercial refrigerators merchant wholesalers, Water coolers merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of specialized machinery, equipment, and related parts generally used in construction, mining (except oil well), and logging activities. Illustrative Examples: Excavating machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers, Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers, Forestry machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers, Scaffolding merchant wholesalers, Mining cranes merchant wholesalers; the merchant wholesale distribution of specialized machinery, equipment, and related parts generally used in agricultural, farm, and lawn and garden activities. Illustrative Examples: Animal feeders merchant wholesalers, Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers, Harvesting machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers |
Wineries | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) growing grapes and manufacturing wines and brandies; (2) manufacturing wines and brandies from grapes and other fruits grown elsewhere; and (3) blending wines and brandies. |
Wired telecommunications carriers | Information | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating and/or providing access to transmission facilities and infrastructure that they own and/or lease for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video using wired telecommunications networks. Transmission facilities may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies. Establishments in this industry use the wired telecommunications network facilities that they operate to provide a variety of services, such as wired telephony services, including VoIP services; wired (cable) audio and video programming distribution; and wired broadband Internet services. By exception, establishments providing satellite television distribution services using facilities and infrastructure that they operate are included in this industry. Illustrative Examples: Broadband Internet service providers, wired (e.g., cable, DSL), Cable television distribution services, Closed-circuit television (CCTV) services, Direct-to-home satellite system (DTH) services, Local telephone carriers, wired, Long-distance telephone carriers, wired, Multichannel multipoint distribution services (MMDS), Satellite television distribution systems, Telecommunications carriers, wired, VoIP service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure. |
Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite) | Information | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide communications via the airwaves. Establishments in this industry have spectrum licenses and provide services using that spectrum, such as cellular phone services, paging services, wireless Internet access, and wireless video services. Illustrative Examples: Cellular telephone services, Paging services, except satellite, Wireless Internet service providers, except satellite, Wireless telephone communications carriers, except satellite. |
Wiring device manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises: manufacturing current-carrying wiring devices. Illustrative Examples: Bus bars, electrical conductors (except switchgear-type), manufacturing, GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupters) manufacturing, Lamp holders manufacturing, Lightning arrestors and coils manufacturing, Receptacles (i.e., outlets), electrical, manufacturing, Switches for electrical wiring (e.g., pressure, pushbutton, snap, tumbler) manufacturing; manufacturing noncurrent-carrying wiring devices. Illustrative Examples: Boxes, electrical wiring (e.g., junction, outlet, switch), manufacturing, Conduits and fittings, electrical, manufacturing, Face plates (i.e., outlet or switch covers) manufacturing, Transmission pole and line hardware manufacturing |
Wood kitchen cabinet and countertop manufacturing | Manufacturing | Comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wood or plastics laminated on wood kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, and countertops (except freestanding). The cabinets and counters may be made on a stock or custom basis.. |
Wool, silk-worm cocoons | Agriculture, hunting and forestry | Farming of domestic animals specifically for the production of wool and silkworm cocoons. |