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SIC 2491Wood Preserving

Industry · Standard Industrial Classification (1987)

Where 2491 sits

  1. D Manufacturing
  2. 24 Lumber and Wood Products, Except Furniture
  3. 249 Miscellaneous Wood Products
  4. 2491 Wood Preserving

Description

Establishments primarily engaged in treating wood, sawed or planed in other establishments, with creosote or other preservatives to prevent decay and to protect against fire and insects. This industry also includes the cutting, treating, and selling of poles, posts, and piling, but establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing other wood products, which they may also treat with preservatives, are not included.

What 2491 includes

6-digit codes

  • 249100 — Wood Preserving
  • 249101 — Poles, Posts and Pilings: Treated Wood
  • 249102 — Bridges and Trestles, Treated Wood
  • 249199 — Wood Preserving, NEC

8-digit codes

  • 24910000 — Wood preserving
  • 24910100 — Poles, posts and pilings: treated wood
  • 24910101 — Mine props, treated wood
  • 24910102 — Piles, foundation and marine construction: treated wood
  • 24910103 — Pilings, treated wood
  • 24910104 — Poles and pole crossarms, treated wood
  • 24910105 — Posts, treated wood
  • 24910200 — Bridges and trestles, treated wood
  • 24910201 — Bridges, treated wood
  • 24910202 — Railroad cross bridges and switch ties, treated wood
  • 24910203 — Railroad cross-ties, treated wood
  • 24910204 — Trestles, treated wood
  • 24919900 — Wood preserving, nec
  • 24919901 — Flooring, treated wood block
  • 24919902 — Millwork, treated wood
  • 24919903 — Preserving (creosoting) of wood
  • 24919904 — Structural lumber and timber, treated wood
  • 24919905 — Vehicle lumber, treated wood
  • 24919906 — Wood products, creosoted

Example activities

  • bridges and trestles, wood: treated
  • creosoting of wood
  • crossties, treated
  • flooring, wood block: treated
  • millwork, treated
  • mine props, treated
  • mine ties, wood: treated
  • piles, foundation and marine construction: treated
  • piling, wood: treated
  • poles and pole crossarms, treated
  • poles, cutting and preserving
  • posts, wood: treated
  • preserving of wood (creosoting)
  • railroad cross bridge and switch ties treated
  • railway crossties, wood: treated
  • structural lumber and timber, treated
  • vehicle lumber, treated
  • wood fence: pickets, poling, rails-treated
  • wood products, creosoted

2491 in other systems

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