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DOT Code: 920.687-102

Industry: tobacco
Alternate Titles: hogshead hand; hogshead stripper; hogshead unpacker; hogshead wrecker

Opens sealed hogsheads of tobacco, using hammer, hatchet, and wire clippers: Removes nails from headbands and cuts metal band and wooden liner. Raises hogshead to upright position, using hoist. Cuts wire bands and remaining headband, removes head, and allows staves to fall on floor or cuts wire bands and lifts hogshead from packed tobacco. On patented hogsheads, cuts tie wire and headbands or removes pins from eyelets, catches sections of staves as staves fall from hogshead, and removes head.

GOE: 06.04.28 STRENGTH: H GED: R2 M1 L2 SVP: 2 DLU: 77