Job Description:

• 1) Works in underground or surface mine, pit, or quarry, or at tipple, mill, or preparation plant, performing any combination of following tasks: Cleans working areas and haulage tracks; digs and maintains drainage ditches; or shovels muck, ore, coal, or rock aside, into cars, or onto conveyors.

• 2) Pushes loaded mine cars from working face to haulage road and couples cars together for transportation to surface.

• 3) Positions and adjusts bits on drill shaft and places cables, jacks, roof bolts, and related equipment in specified locations.

• 4) Trims protrusions from walls and roofs of underground passageways and rooms.

• 5) Strips residue of rock and dirt from exposed coal, ore, or rock formations.

• 6) Loads, separates, or sorts materials at working face, using shovel or wheelbarrow.

• 7) Throws calcium or salt around interiors of railroad cars to prevent coal or ore from freezing to cars during winter.

• 8) May be known according to specific work performed as Car Cleaner; Car Salter; Loader; Mucker; Shoveler; Stripper; Trimmer.