Forging Machine Setters, Operators & Tenders, Metal & Plastic

Description

Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts.

Category

Metalworking & Plasticworking

SOC Code

51-4022

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Decompose fluoropolymers by welding, burning, brazing, or soldering
• Generate mists of metalworking fluids containing ethanolamines
• Generate plastic dusts or powders (Plexiglas or polyvinyl chloride)
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Heat plastics--polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, or polypropylene
• Inhale mists of microbially contaminated, water-based metalworking fluids
• Use dioctyl phthalate to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC)