Industrial Building Construction

This industry 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 operative builders, industrial building design-build firms, and industrial building construction management firms.

Construction

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High risk job tasks associated with this industry:

• Apply arsenic preservatives to wood
• Arc weld stainless steel
• Blast, drill, remove, or crush rock
• Braze using cadmium-based solder
• Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials
• Gas or arc weld on galvanized metal
• Grind or cut tiles, stones, concrete, bricks, or terrazzo
• Heat or machine manganese alloys
• Installed insulation before 1975
• Machine or weld on cadmium-alloyed or cadmium-plated steel
• Remove cadmium coatings
• Remove chromate-containing paints by abrasive blasting
• Remove insulation installed before 1975
• Remove lead coatings
• Saw or sand arsenic-treated wood
• Spray epoxy or polyurethane paint, shellac, lacquer, or varnish
• Use abrasives containing silica or silicon carbide
• Use epoxy, isocyanate, or formaldehyde-resin adhesives, finishes, or sealants
• Use hand-held saw or grinder to remove brick mortar
• Use manganese-containing welding rods
• Use polyfunctional aziridine hardener in paints, varnishes, or other coatings
• Use solder containing colophony, zinc chloride, or ammonium chloride flux
• Weld mild steel
• Weld or machine on beryllium-containing alloys
• Worked for years as painter or varnisher exposed to solvents