213113 Support Activities for Coal Mining

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support activities for coal mining (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities) on a contract or fee basis. Exploration for coal is included in this industry. Exploration services include traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Performing geophysical surveying and mapping services for coal on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 541360, Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services.
• Operating coal mines or quarries on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 21211, Coal Mining, based on the type of mine.
• Site preparation and related construction activities on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 238910, Site Preparation Contractors.
• Providing transportation activities on a contract or fee basis are classified in Sector 48-49, Transportation and Warehousing, based on the primary activity.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 213113

The Census index assigns these 26 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Anthracite mine tunneling on a contract basis
• Anthracite mining services on a contract basis (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
• Auger coal mining services on a contract basis (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
• Bituminous coal mining services on a contract basis (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
• Bituminous coal or lignite surface mine site development (except site preparation and related construction contractor activities) on a contract basis
• Bituminous coal stripping service on a contract basis
• Bituminous or lignite auger mining service on a contract basis
• Blasting services, coal mining, on a contract basis
• Coal mining services on a contract basis (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
• Coal mining support services on a contract basis (e.g., tunneling, blasting, training, overburden removal) (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
• Culm bank recovery, anthracite, on a contract basis
• Culm bank recovery, coal, on a contract basis
• Draining or pumping coal mines on a contract basis
• Drilling services for coal mining on a contract basis
• Exploration services for coal (except geophysical surveying and mapping) on a contract basis
• Lignite mining services on a contract basis (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
• Mine shaft sinking services for coal mining on a contract basis
• Mine tunneling services for coal mining on a contract basis
• Overburden removal for coal mining on a contract basis
• Prospect and test drilling services for coal mining on contract basis
• Pumping or draining coal mines on a contract basis
• Removal of overburden for coal mining on a contract basis
• Shaft sinking for coal mines on a contract basis
• Sinking shafts for coal mining on a contract basis
• Stripping overburden services for coal mining on a contract basis
• Tunneling services for coal mining on a contract basis

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 213113

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 213113, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $27.5 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 0990, 4312), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 09900Support activities for other mining and quarryingUK SIC
• 43120Site preparationUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

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