assisting miners and quarriers in maintaining machinery, equipment, and mine and quarry installations
// Unit group · 9311
Mining and Quarrying Labourers
Mining and quarrying labourers perform routine tasks in mining and quarrying operations.
9 Elementary Occupations / 93 Labourers in Mining, Construction, Manufacturing and Transport / 931 Mining and Construction Labourers / All level 4
// Working conditions
// Hand tools
assembling and dismantling mining equipment
removing tunnel supports from disused workings in mines and quarries
removing dangerous projections from mine and quarry workings
removing waste and serviceable materials and equipment from work areas after extraction activities have been completed, and clearing rock and mineral spills
cleaning machinery, equipment, tools, roadways and haulage tracks
sorting, loading, unloading, stacking and storing tools, materials and supplies used by other mine workers.
Included occupations
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Mining labourer
- Quarry labourer
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Driller (mining) - 8111
- Miner - 8111
- Mining plant operator - 8111
- Quarrier - 8111
- Driller (oil or gas well) - 8113
- Drilling plant operator - 8113
Indexed job titles 2
- Labourer, miningISCO-88 9311
- Labourer, quarryISCO-88 9311