Construction Craft Laborers

Description

Perform tasks involving physical labor at building, highway, and heavy construction projects, tunnel and shaft excavations, and demolition sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, clean up rubble and debris, and remove asbestos, lead, and other hazardous waste materials. May assist other craft workers. Exclude "Helpers, Construction Trades" (47-3011 through 47-3019). Exclude unskilled laborers and report them with "Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand" (53-7062).

Category

Construction

SOC Code

47-2061

Synonyms

Demolition workers

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Apply arsenic preservatives to wood
• Apply coal tar pitch to cables, pipes, roofs, or while paving
• Clean up equipment with solvents
• Clean, repair, or dismantle oil-fired furnaces or boilers
• Contaminate skin or inhale spray while using pentachlorophenol
• Grind or cut tiles, stones, concrete, bricks, or terrazzo
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Installed insulation before 1975
• Load or dump dusty rock, stone, or sand
• Machine wood and inhale dust
• Operate internal combustion engine with inadequate ventilation
• Plow, dig, or excavate soil in endemic area
• Raise dust from bird roosts, chicken coops, or bat-inhabited caves endemic area
• Raise dust of excreta from rodents
• Remove chromate-containing paints by abrasive blasting
• Remove insulation installed before 1975
• Remove lead coatings
• Spray polyurethane foam insulation
• Touch (e.g., barefooted) contaminated soil in endemic area
• Use abrasives containing silica or silicon carbide
• Use acrylamide for grouting (sewers, mining, and tunnel construction)
• Use epoxy, isocyanate, or formaldehyde-resin adhesives, finishes, or sealants
• Use hand-held saw or grinder to remove brick mortar
• Use n-hexane as a solvent in glues, inks, coatings, or degreasers
• Work in conditions of extreme atmospheric pressure
• Work in grease, oil, or tar soaked clothing
• Work in mite infested area of Central, Eastern, or Southeast Asia
• Work with glue solvents
• Work with vibrating hand tools