Painters, Transportation Equipment

Description

Operate or tend painting machines to paint surfaces of transportation equipment, such as automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes. Include painters in auto body repair facilities. [SOC] See the agent "Occupational exposure as a painter."

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9122

Synonyms

Painters in auto body repair facilities

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Apply polyester paints to hot metal
• Clean up equipment with solvents
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat, machine, or spray lead products
• Paint or varnish, oil-based
• Remove cadmium coatings
• Remove chromate-containing paints by abrasive blasting
• Remove lead coatings
• Spray and resand chromate-containing paints
• Spray epoxy or polyurethane paint, shellac, lacquer, or varnish
• Spray paints or glazes containing cadmium pigments
• Use abrasives containing silica or silicon carbide
• Use polyfunctional aziridine hardener in paints, varnishes, or other coatings
• Worked for years as painter or varnisher exposed to solvents