NAICS Canada 238910—Site preparation contractors

Where 238910 sits

1. 23 Construction
2. 238 Specialty trade contractors
3. 2389 Other specialty trade contractors
4. 23891 Site preparation contractors
5. 238910 Site preparation contractors

Description

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in site preparation activities, such as excavating and grading, demolition of buildings and other structures, and septic system installation.

What 238910 includes

• Aerial lift trucks and bucket trucks rental with operator (used by electric utilities or tree trimming)

What 238910 excludes

• Construction equipment rental without an operator (see 532410 construction, transportation, mining, and forestry machinery and equipment rental and leasing (can))
• Crane rental with operator (see 238990 all other specialty trade contractors (us))
• Dismantling tanks in oil fields (see 213118 services to oil and gas extraction (can))
• Drilling oil and gas field water intake wells (see 213118 services to oil and gas extraction (can))
• Earth retention or underwater trenching (see 237990 other heavy and civil engineering construction (us))
• Line slash maintenance (see 561730 landscaping services)
• Mining blast hole drilling (see 213117 contract drilling (except oil and gas) (can))
• Nuclear power plant decommissioning and environmental remediation work, such as the removal of underground steel tanks for hazardous materials (see 562910 remediation services (us))
• Overburden removal (see 213119 other support activities for mining (can))
• Rights of way maintenance (see 561730 landscaping services)
• Tree and brush trimming for overhead utility lines (see 561730 landscaping services)
• Underground tank removal containing hazardous material (see 562910 remediation services (us))

Example activities

• blast hole drilling (except mining)
• blasting and trenching, construction site
• building demolition
• construction equipment (except cranes) rental with operator
• digging foundations
• excavating contractors
• foundation drilling contractors
• land clearing, contractors
• pile driving, contractors
• power, communication and pipe lines, rights of way clearance (except maintenance)
• septic tanks and weeping tile, installation
• backfilling, construction
• backhoes, rental with operator
• blasting, building demolition
• boring for building construction
• brush clearing or cutting
• bulldozing, unspecified, rental with operator
• caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations), construction
• concrete breaking and cutting for demolition
• core drilling and test boring for construction
• crawler work, rental with operator
• cutting of rights-of-way contractor
• demolishing buildings and structures
• demolition contractor

Index entries for 238910

65 entries from the official NAICS Canada alphabetic index that classify under this code.

• Aerial or picker truck, construction, rental with operator
• Backfilling, construction
• Backhoe rental with operator
• Blast hole drilling (except mining)
• Blasting, building demolition
• Blasting, construction site
• Boring, for building construction
• Building demolition
• Building interior gutting and stripping
• Bulldozer rental with operator
• Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction
• Cesspool construction
• Concrete breaking and cutting for demolition
• Construction equipment (except crane) rental with operator
• Core drilling and test boring for construction
• Crawler tractor rental with operator
• Culvert or bridge removal
• Cutting new rights of way
• Demolition contractor
• Demolition, building and structure
• Dewatering contractors
• Digging foundations
• Dirt moving for construction
• Dismantling engineering structures (e.g., oil storage tank)
• Drainage system (e.g., cesspool, septic tank) installation
• Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors
• Drilled shaft (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction
• Dry well construction
• Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator
• Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries)
• Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors
• Excavation contractors
• Exterior demolition contractors
• Foundation digging (i.e., excavation)
• Foundation drilling contractors
• Grading construction sites
• Grave excavation contractors
• Ground thawing for construction site digging
• Helical pier (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction
• House demolishing
• House razing
• Hydrodemolition (i.e., demolition with pressurized water) contractors
• Interior demolition contractors
• Land clearing
• Land leveling contractors
• Line slashing or cutting (except maintenance)
• Machinery, construction (except cranes), rental with operator
• Mine site preparation and related construction activities, construction contractors
• Pile driving, building foundation
• Piling (i.e., bored, cast-in-place, drilled), building foundation, contractors
• Power shovel, construction, rental with operator
• Power, communication and pipe line right of way clearance (except maintenance)
• Removal of dams, dikes, and other heavy and civil engineering constructions
• Right of way cutting (except maintenance)
• Road decommissioning
• Septic system contractors
• Septic tank and weeping tile installation
• Soil compacting
• Soil test drilling
• Test boring for construction
• Trenching (except underwater)
• Underground tank (except hazardous material) removal
• Weeping tile installation
• Whole building deconstruction
• Wrecking, building or other structure

238910 in other systems