Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. Exclude workers whose duties involve strictly grading and sorting of agricultural products. Exclude forestry laborers.

Farmworkers

45-2092

High risk job tasks associated with this job

• Apply organochlorine insecticides
• Contaminate skin or inhale spray while using pentachlorophenol
• Enter silo one to ten days after filling with silage
• Generate grain dust
• Generate insect-derived bioaerosols
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Generate plant-derived bioaerosols
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle flowers
• Handle infected rodents (bite)
• Handle infected rodents (inhalation or percutaneous exposure)
• Handle infected skunk, raccoon, bat, fox, other carnivore, or woodchuck (bite)
• Inhale bioaerosols of moldy compost
• Inhale bioaerosols of moldy hay, silage, straw, or grain
• Inhale mite allergens while farming or handling flour or grain
• Inhale plant mold (greenhouse worker) or slime mold (microbiologist)
• Mix or apply organophosphates or work in fields after an application
• Operate internal combustion engine with inadequate ventilation
• Plow, dig, or excavate soil in endemic area
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy sugarcane bagasse
• Repeatedly inhale dust of moldy greenhouse soil
• Repeatedly inhale dust of moldy tobacco
• Saw or sand arsenic-treated wood
• Saw or sand creosote-treated wood
• Spray chlorothalonil or tetramethrin (pesticides)
• Touch (e.g., barefooted) contaminated soil in endemic area
• Touch plants containing thorns, splinters, or spaghum moss
• Work or swim in contaminated water (percutaneous exposure)