Agricultural Production Workers, All Other

Description

All other agricultural production workers not classified separately above.

Category

Farmworkers

SOC Code

45-2099

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Apply organochlorine insecticides
• Generate grain dust
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Generate plant-derived bioaerosols
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle infected rodents (bite)
• Handle infected rodents (inhalation or percutaneous exposure)
• Handle infected skunk, raccoon, bat, fox, other carnivore, or woodchuck (bite)
• Inhale bioaerosols of moldy compost
• Inhale mite allergens while farming or handling flour or grain
• Mix or apply organophosphates or work in fields after an application
• Produce silk (sericulture)
• Raise dust of excreta from rodents
• Repeatedly debark maple trees to obtain sap
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy barley
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy sugarcane bagasse
• Repeatedly inhale moldy cork dust
• Spray chlorothalonil or tetramethrin (pesticides)
• Touch (e.g., barefooted) contaminated soil in endemic area
• Touch plants containing thorns, splinters, or sphagnum moss
• Work in forest in endemic areas of Central and South America
• Work or swim in contaminated water (percutaneous exposure)