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Job Name	Logging Workers, All Other
Description	Saw felled trees into specified lengths, cut off limbs, clear brush, and split logs, using power chain saws and axes. Mark and move logs, and tend machines that debark logs. Fasten chokers around logs to prepare to yard them from felling and bucking area to storage or loading docks. Include timber cutting and related logging workers not classified separately above. Exclude log handling equipment operators, logging tractor operators, fallers, and log graders and scalers.
Category	Logging, Forest & Conservation
SOC Code	45-4029
Job Tasks	High risk job tasks associated with this job: Repeatedly debark maple trees to obtain sap Repeatedly inhale moldy cork dust Work in forest in endemic areas of Central and South America Work in tick infested area Work with vibrating hand tools