Job Description:

• 1) Skins sections of animals or whole animals, such as cattle, sheep, and hogs, performing any combination of following tasks as member of a crew: Slits skin on head of carcass, and pulls and cuts connective tissue until head and neck are exposed, using knife.

• 2) Severs head from carcass of animal, using knife and cleaver and places it on racks for inspection.

• 3) Trims meat or fat from head skins.

• 4) Slits remaining hide on carcass from breastbone to crotch.

• 5) Pulls, cuts, and forces hand between hide and carcass to break connective tissue and separate it from neck, sides, shoulders, flanks, back, and tail of suspended carcass.

• 6) Breaks and severs legs at knee joint, and removes such parts as dew claws, bungs, tails, and genital organs.

• 7) Raises cattle from floor, using hoist, and pulls hide off carcass by hand or using pinchers.

• 8) Severs and exposes gullet and windpipe on small stock, using knife, and ties gullet to prevent leakage of fluid when viscera is removed.

• 9) Slits womb of cattle with knife to remove slunk.

• 10) Shackles neck of slunk and pulls off skin, using winch.

• 11) May saw brisket bone on cattle.

• 12) May skin pork, using drawknife.

• 13) May be designated according to kind of animal or portion of carcass skinned as Backer; Calf Skinner; Cattle Header; Slunk Skinner.

• 14) May be designated: Cattle Dropper And Pritcher; Leg Skinner; Shoulder Puncher; Small-Stock Facer.