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DOT Code: 786.685-010

Industry: garment
Alternate Titles: fastener-sewing-machine operator

Tends semiautomatic, short-cycle sewing machine that sews buttons or other fasteners onto garments: Positions garment or garment part under needle. Pours buttons into hopper for automatic feeding into holding clamp or places button or fastener in clamp and starts machine. Variations are in type of attachment (spot-tack or thread-shank) and in type of button or fastener (flat or shank button; snap or hook-and-eye fastener). May tend same machine to spot-tack when not attaching buttons or fasteners.

GOE: 06.04.05 STRENGTH: L GED: R2 M1 L1 SVP: 2 DLU: 77