Rail-Track Laying & Maintenance Equipment Operators

Description

Lay, repair, and maintain track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad equipment used in regular railroad service or in plant yards, quarries, sand and gravel pits, and mines. Include ballast cleaning machine operators and road bed tamping machine operators.

Category

Construction

SOC Code

47-4061

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
• Decompose chlorinated solvents by UV light or heat from welding
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat or machine manganese alloys
• Machine or weld on cadmium-alloyed or cadmium-plated steel
• Machine wood and inhale dust
• Raise dust of excreta from rodents
• Saw or sand arsenic-treated wood
• Saw or sand wood treated with coal tar creosote
• Use cemented carbide materials or tools
• Weld mild steel
• Weld or machine on beryllium-containing alloys
• Work in tick infested area