Extruding, Forming, Pressing & Compacting Machine Operators

Description

Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics. Exclude paper goods machine setters, operators and tenders; and shoe machine operators and tenders.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9041

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Clean up equipment with solvents
• Compound plastics using lead stabilizers
• Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials
• Generate bioaerosols derived from milk, eggs, or animal serum
• Generate bioaerosols of vegetable gums
• Generate bioaerosols processing seafood
• Generate flour dust
• Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Generate plant-derived bioaerosols
• Generate plastic dusts or powders (Plexiglas or polyvinyl chloride)
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Make asbestos products
• Make products from silica powder/stone or other fibrogenic minerals
• Manufacture cemented carbide materials or tools
• Manufacture lead products
• Manufacture rosin core solder (colophony) and rubber tires (tall oil)
• Produced rubber with long-term exposure to high concentrations of curing fumes
• Use diisocyanates to manufacture polyurethane products