Packers & Packagers, Hand

Description

Packages materials and products manually, performing any combination of following duties: Cleans packaging containers. Pack or package by hand a wide variety of products and materials.

Category

Material Moving

SOC Code

53-7063

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Compound plastics using lead stabilizers
• Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials
• Generate bioaerosols of biological enzymes
• Generate grain dust
• Generate insect-derived bioaerosols
• Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Generate plant-derived bioaerosols
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle limes, celery, parsnips, or figs
• Handle raw goat hair, wool, or hides from endemic area
• Heat plastics--polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, or polypropylene
• Inhale insect allergens in fish food or fish bait
• Make products from silica powder/stone or other fibrogenic minerals
• Manufacture arsenical pesticides
• Manufacture pesticides containing captafol
• Manufacture rosin core solder (colophony) and rubber tires (tall oil)
• Mix or pack pharmaceutical products
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of cheese containing Penicillum species
• Repeatedly inhale dust of esparto grass
• Touch plants containing thorns, splinters, or sphagnum moss
• Work continuously with wet hands