4806-01 Farms: Nuts, berries, prunes, or field flowers and bulbs - Hand harvesting
Applies to:
Farm employees engaged exclusively in hand harvesting nuts, berries, prunes, field flowers or bulbs.
Special note: Classification
4806 is not to be assigned to any grower as the single farming classification. Refer to classification
4802 for berry or flower and bulb raising operations, and to classification
4803 for orchard operations.
Work in this classification includes, but is not limited to:
• Harvest of crops which are picked from trees or from the ground, by hand and by a worker either sitting, kneeling, bending, stooping, or standing on the ground.
What activities are not included in this classification?
• Operations where ladders, stools, or other climbing devices are used;
• Operations where harvesting is accomplished or aided with hand-held cutting devices or tools;
• Use of mechanical picking or harvesting equipment including by incidental workers who may or may not follow behind such machinery and collect the harvested crops by hand;
• Picking of wild berries or other products in forests or other lands not associated with farming operations; and
• Contractors hired by farm to install, repair or build any farm equipment or structures (report in the classification applicable to the work being performed).
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