Extruding & Drawing Machine Setters/Operators, Metal & Plastic

Description

Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.

Category

Metalworking & Plasticworking

SOC Code

51-4021

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Compound plastics using lead stabilizers
• Degrease metal
• Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials
• 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 plastics--polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, or polypropylene
• Inhale mists of contaminated water from plastics injection molding
• Inhale mists of microbially contaminated, water-based metalworking fluids
• Use dioctyl phthalate to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC)