Painting, Coating & Decorating Workers

Description

Paint, coat, or decorate articles such as furniture, glass, plateware, pottery, jewelry, cakes, toys, books, or leather. Exclude artists, designers, photographic process workers, etchers, and engravers.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9123

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Apply polyester paints to hot metal
• Clean up equipment with solvents
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat, machine, or spray lead products
• Machine wood and inhale dust
• Paint or varnish, oil-based
• Remove cadmium coatings
• Remove chromate-containing paints by abrasive blasting
• Remove lead coatings
• Spray and resand chromate-containing paints
• Spray epoxy or polyurethane paint, shellac, lacquer, or varnish
• Spray paints or glazes containing cadmium pigments
• Use abrasives containing silica or silicon carbide
• Use diisocyanates to manufacture polyurethane products
• Use epoxy, isocyanate, or formaldehyde-resin adhesives, finishes, or sealants
• Use n-hexane as a solvent in glues, inks, coatings, or degreasers
• Use polyfunctional aziridine hardener in paints, varnishes, or other coatings
• Work with glue solvents
• Worked for years as painter or varnisher exposed to solvents