Class code 9052 — Hotel — All Other Employees & Drivers

In states that use the NCCI system, 9052 is the main workers’ comp classification for a hotel or motel. It picks up the people who keep the rooms and the building running: front desk and night audit, housekeeping and laundry, engineering and maintenance, bell staff, and the drivers who run the guest shuttle. If a property has no restaurant of its own, nearly all of its payroll usually lands here apart from clerical office staff.

Housekeeping is the engine of this class’s losses. Room attendants bend, lift mattresses, push loaded carts and scrub tubs dozens of times a shift, so strains, shoulder injuries and slips on wet tile dominate the claim mix. Maintenance staff add ladder falls, lacerations and electrical exposure, and shuttle drivers add the possibility of a vehicle accident, which is why driver hiring standards matter to the underwriter even though the drivers sit in this class.

The code applies to the hotel as an operation, not to a single job title, so classification starts with what the business does. A property that also runs its own restaurant or bar splits that food and beverage payroll out to 9058. Independent-bureau states — California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Michigan, Texas, Indiana and others — set their own rules and, in some cases, their own code numbers, so confirm the classification your state’s bureau actually uses.