Grinding & Polishing Workers, Hand

Description

Grind, sand, or polish, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, or glass objects. Include chippers, buffers, and finishers.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9022

Synonyms

Sandblasters; Chippers; Buffers, Finishers.

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Degrease metal
• Generate plastic dusts or powders (Plexiglas or polyvinyl chloride)
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat or machine chromium alloys
• Heat or machine cobalt alloys
• Heat or machine manganese alloys
• Heat, machine, or spray lead products
• Machine or weld on cadmium-alloyed or cadmium-plated steel
• Machine wood and inhale dust
• Make cadmium-containing products
• Make products from silica powder/stone or other fibrogenic minerals
• Produce nacre buttons from mollusc shells
• Remove cadmium coatings
• Remove chromate-containing paints by abrasive blasting
• Remove lead coatings
• Saw or sand arsenic-treated wood
• Saw or sand wood treated with coal tar creosote
• Use abrasives containing silica or silicon carbide
• Use cemented carbide materials or tools
• Weld or machine on beryllium-containing alloys
• Work with vibrating hand tools