Agricultural Equipment Operators

Description

Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May perform tasks such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Category

Farmworkers

SOC Code

45-2091

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Apply organochlorine insecticides
• Generate grain dust
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Mix or apply organophosphates or work in fields after an application
• Raise dust of excreta from rodents
• Spray chlorothalonil or tetramethrin (pesticides)