Pourers and Casters, Metal

Description

Operate hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots. [SOC] See the agent "Iron and steel founding."

Category

Metalworking & Plasticworking

SOC Code

51-4052

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Make molds in foundry using MDI, furfuryl alcohol, or amine curing agents
• Produce chromium alloys or chromate pigments
• Reclaim scrap metal containing lead, cadmium, beryllium, or mercury
• 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 foundry for years with heavy exposure to gases/fumes and mineral dust