333923

Analysis

NAICS 333923 is the 2022 national industry for overhead traveling crane, hoist, and monorail system manufacturing, part of 33392 (Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing). Census lists 15 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 321 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 20,547 people at an average annual payroll of $72,685 per employee (56th percentile of national industries). 17% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include aerial work platforms manufacturing, automobile wrecker (i.e., tow truck) hoists manufacturing, block and tackle manufacturing and boat lifts manufacturing, among 15 in all.

Its goods appear in 10 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8425 (pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches…), 8426 (ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile…) and 8427 (fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 333120, 333924 and 333613. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.

For example, manufacturing construction-type cranes are classified in 333120 (Construction Machinery Manufacturing) instead.