Packaging and Filling Machine Tenders and Operators

Description

Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Include cannery workers who pack food products.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9111

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Compound plastics using lead stabilizers
• Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials
• Generate bioaerosols derived from milk, eggs, or animal serum
• Generate bioaerosols of biological enzymes
• Generate bioaerosols processing seafood
• Generate grain dust
• Generate insect-derived bioaerosols
• Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle raw goat hair, wool, or hides from endemic area
• Inhale insect allergens in fish food or fish bait
• Make products from silica powder/stone or other fibrogenic minerals
• Manufacture arsenical pesticides
• Manufacture pesticides containing captafol
• Manufacture rosin core solder (colophony) and rubber tires (tall oil)
• Mix or pack pharmaceutical products
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of cheese containing Penicillum species
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy barley
• Repeatedly inhale dust of esparto grass
• Repeatedly inhale moldy cork dust
• Work with flock (dryers and baggers/cutters) or clean plant with compressed air