Job Description:

• 1) Tends battery of condenser tubes in which gaseous mercury is condensed into liquid mercury: Places water-filled buckets at base of each tube to collect liquid mercury.

• 2) Removes buckets as mercury accumulates, pours off water, and strains mercury into steel flask.

• 3) Pours mixture of water, mercury, and dust onto sloping table, adds quicklime, and stirs mixture with hoe to separate remaining mercury from sediment.