construction work

construction work
Work in erecting buildings, providing other structures, such as bridges and viaducts, improving harbors, digging canals, making and repairing highways, etc. As used in workmen's compensation acts to describe a particular type of employment, the term includes reconstruction, and applies to the strengthening, by the addition of stays and supports, of a completed building found to be faulty. 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 98.

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