Laborer

Job Location: Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, WI

Performs any combination of the following tasks: erecting, repairing and wrecking buildings and bridges; installing waterworks, lock, and dams; grading and maintaining railroad right-of-ways and laying ties and rails; widening, deepening rivers, canals and harbors, requiring little or no independent judgment. Digs, spreads and levels dirt and gravel, using pick and shovel. Lifts, carries and holds building materials, tools and supplies. Cleans tools, equipment, material and work areas. Mixes, pours and spreads concrete, asphalt, gravel and other materials, using hand tools. Joins, wraps, and seals sections of pipe. Performs variety of routine, nonmachine tasks, such as removing forms from set concrete, filling expansion joints with asphalt, placing culvert sections in trench, assembling sections of dredge pipeline, removing wallpaper, and laying railroad track. Many of these jobs are not full time; project size and organization of work determine whether workers spend their time on one job or transfer from task to task as project progresses to completion. Some workers habitually work in one branch of industry, whereas others transfer according to availability of work or on seasonal basis. Work is usually performed with other workers.

Physical Demands: Very heavy work: Exerting force of 100 pounds occasionally, excess of 50 pounds frequently or excess of 20 pounds constantly to move objects.

Occasionally:

• Climbing
• Balancing
• Crawling
• Feeling
• Hearing

Frequently:

• Stooping
• Kneeling
• Reaching
• Handling
• Crouching
• Depth Perception
• Field of Vision

Constantly:

• Working
• Moving
• Sweeping

Environmental Conditions: Loud.

Not Present:

• Radiation exposure
• Working with explosives
• Toxic/Caustic Chemical Exposure

Occasionally:

• Extreme Cold
• Extreme Heat
• Vibration
• Working in High/Exposed places
• Wet and/ or Humid
• Moving Mechanical Parts
• Dust & Fume Exposure
• Electric Shock Exposure

Frequently:

• Weather exposure

• Not Present: Activity or condition does not exist.

• Occasionally: Activity or conditions exists up to 1/3 of the time.

• Frequently: Activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.

• Constantly: Activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time.