Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipit. & Still Machine Operators

Description

Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat-type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or separate liquids, gases, or solids from other materials to recover a refined product. Include dairy processing equipment operators. Exclude workers who operate equipment to control chemical changes or reactions.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9012

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Dye fur with compounds containing amines
• Generate bioaerosols derived from milk, eggs, or animal serum
• Generate bioaerosols of biological enzymes
• Generate bioaerosols of vegetable gums
• Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products
• Grind, mix, or weigh dyes or apply dyes to textiles
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Manufacture arsenical pesticides
• Manufacture rosin core solder (colophony) and rubber tires (tall oil)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of cheese containing Penicillum species
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy barley
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy wood pulp
• Use benzene to manufacture products
• Use chromates or dichromates in tanning
• Worked in pulp and paper mill for years with repeated heavy exposures to irritating gases