Cutting & Slicing Machine Setters, Operators & Tenders

Description

Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material. Exclude wood, metal, plastic, or textile cutters.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9032

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Generate bioaerosols of vegetable gums
• Generate bioaerosols processing seafood
• Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Grind or cut tiles, stones, concrete, bricks, or terrazzo
• Make asbestos products
• Make brushes from tampico fibers
• Produce silk (sericulture)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of cheese containing Penicillum species
• Repeatedly inhale moldy cork dust
• Work with flock (dryers and baggers/cutters) or clean plant with compressed air