Maintenance & Repair Workers, General

Description

Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of an establishment in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; boiler making; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs. Exclude machinery maintenance workers,

Category

Installlation, Maintenance & Repair

SOC Code

49-9042

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Arc weld aluminum
• Arc weld stainless steel
• Assemble products using cyanoacrylate glues
• Clean, repair, or dismantle oil-fired furnaces or boilers
• Decompose chlorinated solvents by UV light or heat from welding
• Decompose fluoropolymers by welding, burning, brazing, or soldering
• Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials
• Gas or arc weld on galvanized metal
• Gas weld or cut in a confined space
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat, machine, or spray lead products
• Operate internal combustion engine with inadequate ventilation
• 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 lead coatings
• Repair or maintain gasoline or jet fuel tanks
• Spray polyurethane foam insulation
• Use epoxy, isocyanate, or formaldehyde-resin adhesives, finishes, or sealants
• Use n-hexane as a solvent in glues, inks, coatings, or degreasers
• Weld mild steel
• Weld on metal painted with chlorinated polyester paint
• Weld or machine on beryllium-containing alloys
• Work in grease, oil, or tar soaked clothing
• Work in the mercury cell room in a chloralkali plant
• Work with glue solvents
• Worked in pulp and paper mill for years with repeated heavy exposures to irritating gases