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Major JobTask Category 0 Agitate or pump liquid manure or enter manure pit Apply arsenic preservatives to wood Apply coal tar pitch to cables, pipes, or roofs Apply organochlorine insecticides Arc weld aluminum Arc weld stainless steel Assemble or repair automotive brakes or clutches containing asbestos Assemble products using cyanoacrylate glues Before 1975, mixed, sprayed, or sanded asbestos-containing materials Blast, drill, remove, or crush rock, concrete or brick Braze using cadmium-based solder Care for children or animals infected with cryptosporidiosis Care for children or primates infected with hepatitis A Care for sick patients (bloodborne pathogens) Care for sick patients (droplet/airborne pathogens) Care for sick patients (fecal-oral pathogens) Clean pools or aquariums Clean up equipment with solvents Clean, repair, or dismantle oil-fired furnaces or boilers Compound plastics using lead stabilizers Contaminate skin or inhale spray while using pentachlorophenol Cut and dry rayon filaments Decompose chlorinated solvents by UV light or heat from welding Decompose fluoropolymers by welding, burning, brazing, or soldering Degrease metal Develop color photographs with compounds containing amines Disinfect or sterilize medical equipment Dry clean with organic solvents Dye fur with compounds containing amines Dye or bleach hair, or use ethanolamines in beauty culture Enter silo one to ten days after filling with silage Extract coal Extract mercury ore (cinnabar) Fabricate measuring devices containing mercury Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials Galvanize metal Gas or arc weld on galvanized metal Gas weld or cut in a confined space Generate bioaerosols derived from milk, eggs, or animal serum Generate bioaerosols of animal-derived proteins Generate bioaerosols of biological enzymes Generate bioaerosols of Chinese red rice (food colorant derived from fungi) Generate bioaerosols processing seafood Generate flour dust Generate grain dust Generate guar gum bioaerosols Generate insect-derived bioaerosols Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products Generate latex dust using latex products Generate mists of metalworking fluids containing ethanolamines Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products Generate plant-derived bioaerosols Generate plastic dusts or powders (Plexiglas or polyvinyl chloride) Generate psyllium dust Grind or cut tiles, stones, concrete, bricks, or terrazzo Grind, mix, or weigh dyes or apply dyes to textiles Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria Handle flowers Handle infected animal carcasses or placental tissues Handle infected chickens or birds Handle infected dog or cat (bite or scratch) Handle infected domestic animals (inhalation or percutaneous exposure) Handle infected laboratory rats or mice Handle infected macaque monkeys Handle infected rodents (bite) Handle infected rodents (inhalation or percutaneous exposure) Handle infected skunk, raccoon, bat, fox, other carnivore, or woodchuck (bite) Handle laboratory animals Handle limes, celery, parsnips, or figs Handle medical needles or surgical instruments Handle raw goat hair, wool, or hides from endemic area Have contact with dogs or cats (fecal-oral exposure) Heat or machine chromium alloys Heat or machine cobalt alloys Heat or machine manganese alloys Heat plastics--polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, or polypropylene Heat, machine, or spray lead products Inhale aspergillus in bakery, beet sugar refinery, or biotechnology plant Inhale bioaerosols in the home, school, or office environment Inhale bioaerosols of moldy compost Inhale bioaerosols of moldy hay, silage, straw, or grain Inhale dust in livestock confinement building Inhale insect allergens in fish food or fish bait Inhale insect allergens in the laboratory Inhale mists of contaminated water from plastics injection molding Inhale mists of microbially contaminated, water-based metalworking fluids Inhale mite allergens while farming or handling flour or grain Inhale moldy wood dust Inhale or handle nitrogen compounds that can induce methemoglobinemia Inhale petroleum vapors containing benzene Inhale plant mold (greenhouse worker) or slime mold (microbiologist) Inhale Rhizopus nigricans in a coal mine Installed insulation before 1975 Load or dump dusty rock, stone, or sand Machine or weld on cadmium-alloyed or cadmium-plated steel Machine wood and inhale dust Make asbestos products Make beryllium-containing products Make cadmium-containing products Make molds in foundry using MDI, furfuryl alcohol, or amine curing agents Make products from silica powder/stone or other fibrogenic minerals Manually "lay-up" reinforced polyester resins using styrene Manufacture and repair mercury fluorescent lights Manufacture arsenical pesticides Manufacture cemented carbide materials or tools Manufacture isothiazolinones Manufacture lead products Manufacture or use mercury dental amalgams Manufacture pesticides containing captafol Manufacture rosin core solder Mine asbestos Mine or crush chromium ores Mine or crush manganese ores Mix and apply bone adhesives Mix or apply organophosphates or work in fields after an application Mix or pack pharmaceutical products Operate internal combustion engine with inadequate ventilation Paint or varnish, oil-based Plate metal with cadmium Plate metal with chromium Plate metal with nickel Plow, dig, or excavate soil in endemic area Prepare fruit salad using a solution of enzymes (pectinase and glucanase) Prepare potatoes using metabisulfite powder Prepare, card, or spin natural vegetable fibers (a heavy exposure) Produce chromium alloys or chromate pigments Produce nacre buttons from mollusc shells Produce silk (sericulture) Produced rubber with long-term exposure to high concentrations of curing fumes Raise dust from bird roosts, chicken coops, or bat-inhabited caves endemic area Raise dust of excreta from rodents Raise farm dust contaminated with Francisella tularensis bacteria Reclaim scrap metal containing lead, cadmium, beryllium, or mercury Remove cadmium coatings Remove chromate-containing paints by abrasive blasting Remove insulation installed before 1975 Remove lead coatings Remove or replace PCB contaminated fluid in transformers Repair or maintain gasoline or jet fuel tanks Repeatedly debark maple trees to obtain sap Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of bird droppings Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of cheese containing Penicillum species Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy barley Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy sugarcane bagasse Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy wood pulp Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of soy sauce fermentation starter Repeatedly inhale dust harvesting peat moss Repeatedly inhale dust of moldy esparto grass Repeatedly inhale dust of moldy greenhouse soil Repeatedly inhale dust of moldy tobacco Repeatedly inhale moldy cork dust Repeatedly prepare, card, or spin natural vegetable fibers Saw or sand arsenic-treated wood Saw or sand creosote-treated wood Smelt or cast lead Smelt or refine zinc or copper Spray and resand chromate-containing paints Spray chlorothalonil or tetramethrin (pesticides) Spray epoxy or polyurethane paint, shellac, lacquer, or varnish Spray paints or glazes containing cadmium pigments Spray polyurethane foam insulation Sterilize equipment with ethylene oxide Touch (e.g., barefooted) contaminated soil in endemic area Touch infected farm animals Touch infected fish or shellfish Touch infected meat or poultry Touch plants containing thorns, splinters, or spaghum moss Travel to endemic area with inadequate protection Use abrasives containing silica or silicon carbide Use acrylamide for grouting (sewers, mining, and tunnel construction) Use anhydride compounds to manufacture chemical products Use azodicarbonamide as additive to plastics and rubber Use benzene to manufacture products Use carbon disulfide as fumigant Use cemented carbide materials or tools Use chloramine-T for cleaning or disinfecting Use chromates or dichromates in printing Use chromates or dichromates in tanning Use dental acrylate compounds Use diazonium salts to manufacture photocopy paper or polymers Use diisocyanates to manufacture polyurethane products Use epoxy, isocyanate, or formaldehyde-resin adhesives, finishes, or sealants Use ethanolamines in cleaning products Use ferromanganese in alloy production Use formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde to develop x-rays in darkroom Use hand-held saw or grinder to remove brick mortar Use manganese-containing welding rods Use mercury to extract gold Use methacrylates to apply artificial fingernails Use n-hexane as a solvent in glues, inks, coatings, or degreasers Use polyfunctional aziridine hardener in paints, varnishes, or other coatings Use sodium cyanide to recover silver from x-ray film Use solder containing colophony, zinc chloride, or ammonium chloride flux Use solvents in printing (platemaking or using solvent-based inks) Use tetrazene to manufacture detonators Weld mild steel Weld on metal painted with chlorinated polyester paint Weld or machine on beryllium-containing alloys Work as a dental technician with long-term exposure to CoCrMo dusts Work as cement floorer with exposure to chromate salts Work continuously with wet hands Work in a medical or research laboratory handling the pathogen Work in building infested with rodent fleas or mites Work in conditions of extreme atmospheric pressure Work in confined space Work in forest in endemic areas of Central and South America Work in grease, oil, or tar soaked clothing Work in indoor pool as lifeguard or swimming instructor Work in microwave popcorn plant that uses diacetyl for flavoring Work in mite infested area of Central, Eastern, or Southeast Asia Work in mouths of patients Work in the mercury cell room in a chloralkali plant Work in tick infested area Work in tunnel construction for years with heavy exposure to NO2 (blasting & diesel exhaust) Work or swim in contaminated water (percutaneous exposure) Work with flock (dryers and baggers/cutters) or clean plant with compressed air Work with glue solvents Work with toxic chemicals that could be spilled or released Work with vibrating hand tools Worked for years as painter or varnisher exposed to solvents Worked in foundry for years with heavy exposure to gases/fumes and mineral dust Worked in pulp and paper mill for years with repeated heavy exposures to irritating gases Worked in smelter for years with heavy exposures to sulfur dioxide and metal fumes

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