Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders

Description

Operate or tend furnaces, such as gas, oil, coal, electric-arc or electric induction, open-hearth, or oxygen furnaces, to melt and refine metal before casting or to produce specified types of steel. Exclude heat-treating operators and tenders.

Category

Metalworking & Plasticworking

SOC Code

51-4051

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Produce chromium alloys or chromate pigments
• Reclaim scrap metal containing lead, cadmium, beryllium, or mercury
• Refine platinum
• Smelt or cast lead
• Smelt or refine zinc or copper
• Use ferromanganese in alloy production
• Use mercury to extract gold
• Work in potroom at aluminum smelter
• Worked in smelter for years with heavy exposures to sulfur dioxide and metal fumes