Drilling & Boring Machine Tool Setters/Operators, Metal and Plastic

Description

Set up, operate, or tend drilling machines to drill, bore, ream, mill, or countersink metal or plastic work pieces.

Category

Metalworking & Plasticworking

SOC Code

51-4032

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
• Manufacture cemented carbide materials or tools
• Use cemented carbide materials or tools
• Weld or machine on beryllium-containing alloys