Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators and Tenders

Description

Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, food products, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9023

Synonyms

Paint makers

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Add sulfites to food (potatoes, lobster, wine, apricots)
• Compound plastics using lead stabilizers
• Dye fur with compounds containing amines
• 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 of Chinese red rice (food colorant derived from fungi)
• Generate bioaerosols of vegetable gums
• Generate flour dust
• Generate grain dust
• Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Generate plant-derived bioaerosols
• Grind, mix, or weigh dyes or apply dyes to textiles
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle limes, celery, parsnips, or figs
• Inhale or handle nitrogen compounds that can induce methemoglobinemia
• Make asbestos products
• Make cadmium-containing products
• Make products from silica powder/stone or other fibrogenic minerals
• Manufacture arsenical pesticides
• Manufacture chemicals
• Manufacture lead products
• Manufacture pesticides containing captafol
• Manufacture rosin core solder (colophony) and rubber tires (tall oil)
• Mix or pack pharmaceutical products
• Prepare fruit salad using a solution of enzymes (pectinase and glucanase)
• Produce chromium alloys or chromate pigments
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy barley
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy wood pulp
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of soy sauce fermentation starter
• Repeatedly inhale dust of moldy tobacco
• Use anhydride compounds to manufacture chemical products
• Use azodicarbonamide as additive to plastics and rubber
• Use benzene to manufacture products
• Use chromates or dichromates in tanning
• Use diazonium salts to manufacture photocopy paper or polymers
• Use diisocyanates to manufacture polyurethane products
• Use dioctyl phthalate to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
• Use tetrazene to manufacture detonators
• Work in microwave popcorn plant that uses diacetyl for flavoring