Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders

Description

Operate or tend equipment to control chemical changes or reactions in the processing of industrial or consumer products. Equipment used includes devulcanizers, batch stills, fermenting tanks, steam-jacketed kettles, and reactor vessels. Exclude chemical plant system operators.

Category

Miscellaneous Production

SOC Code

51-9011

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Dye fur with compounds containing amines
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Inhale or handle nitrogen compounds that can induce methemoglobinemia
• Make cadmium-containing products
• Manufacture arsenical pesticides
• Manufacture chemicals
• Manufacture lead products
• Manufacture pesticides containing captafol
• Produce chromium alloys or chromate pigments
• 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 the mercury cell room in a chloralkali plant
• Worked in pulp and paper mill for years with repeated heavy exposures to irritating gases