- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who lifts head of animal suspended from conveyor to facilitate examining and throat-cutting by official as prescribed by Jewish law.
* Pushes animal over bleeding trough after cut has been made.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transfers hog-back skins from vat to grading table and measures size and length of skin on graduated grading board.
* Separates skins according to size.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transfers hog-back skins from vat to grading table and measures size and length of skin on graduated grading board.
* Separates skins according to size.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cures slunk (unborn calf) skins in vat of brine solution. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to fill vat with water and adds salt.
* Places slunk skins in vat and stirs them with pole to ensure complete curing.
* Removes cured skins from vat and rolls them into ball or places them in barrel for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sprays steam on suspended hog carcasses to remove hair and dirt (scurf).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stuns animals, such as cattle, hogs, sheep, or goats, preparatory to slaughtering. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens gate to allow animal to enter knocking pen or chute.
* Moves levers to close squeezing mechanism that immobilizes animal.
* Stuns animal by striking it on forehead with sledgehammer, pneumatic hammer, or cartridge-firing stunning device; by shooting it in head; or by placing electric shocking device against head of animal.
* Pulls levers to tilt floor of pen and slide animal onto killing floor, or onto conveyors leading to sticking and shackling tables.
* May stick, shackle, and suspend animals from overhead conveyors or rails.
* May assist in driving animals into knocking pen or chute.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rolls and ties cuts of meat to form roasts. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cut of meat on table and rolls meat into circular shape.
* Forces skewer threaded with twine through roll of meat at various points to hold roll in place.
* Knots and cuts twine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rolls and ties cuts of meat to form roasts. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cut of meat on table and rolls meat into circular shape.
* Forces skewer threaded with twine through roll of meat at various points to hold roll in place.
* Knots and cuts twine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sprays suspended animal carcasses with water hose to wash off blood and dirt and pushes carcass along overhead rail to next work station.
* May brush or scrape off foreign matter.
* May shroud carcass.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in processing crab meat for canning, freezing, or packing. Respnsibilities include:
* Separates claws from crabs, positions claws in metal holder used to facilitate breaking claw shells, and breaks shells of claws and crabs, using knife or metal rod.
* Picks meat from shells, using knife and fingers.
* Feels meat for presence of shell and removes shell pieces by hand.
* Inspects meat for discoloration and discards meat not meeting company requirements.
* Places meat in containers for further processing.
* Gathers filled containers of meat, places containers on scale, and adds or removes meat from containers to obtain specified weight.
* Closes lids of containers, places containers in cartons, and seals cartons, using tape.
* May disjoint legs and body of large crabs, using power saw, and be known as Sawyer.
* May remove crab meat from smaller ends of leg segments, using pedal-controlled air jet, and be known as Blower.
Industry:Professional careers
