Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Operators, Metal and Plastic

Description

Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.

Category

Metalworking & Plasticworking

SOC Code

51-4031

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Degrease metal
• Generate mists of metalworking fluids containing ethanolamines
• Generate plastic dusts or powders (Plexiglas or polyvinyl chloride)
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat or machine chromium alloys
• Heat or machine cobalt alloys
• Heat plastics--polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, or polypropylene
• Inhale mists of microbially contaminated, water-based metalworking fluids
• Make beryllium-containing products
• Use cemented carbide materials or tools
• Use diisocyanates to manufacture polyurethane products
• Weld or machine on beryllium-containing alloys