Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Description

Manually move freight, stock, or other materials. Exclude workers who use power equipment.

Category

Material Moving

SOC Code

53-7062

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• 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 bioaerosols of moldy compost
• Plow, dig, or excavate soil in endemic area
• Raise dust from bird roosts, chicken coops, or bat-inhabited caves endemic area
• Raise dust of excreta from rodents
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols containing mold (asthmogenic)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy sugarcane bagasse
• 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 in microwave popcorn plant that uses diacetyl for flavoring
• Work in mite infested area of Central, Eastern, or Southeast Asia
• Work with flock (dryers and baggers/cutters) or clean plant with compressed air
• Worked in foundry for years with heavy exposure to gases/fumes and mineral dust
• Worked in smelter for years with heavy exposures to sulfur dioxide and metal fumes