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O*NET detailed work activityPour materials into or on designated areas
Stays humanHands-on work
13 jobs14 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Perform general construction or extraction activities, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 14 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Insert, pack, and pour explosives, such as dynamite, ammonium nitrate, black powder, or slurries into blast holes; then shovel drill cuttings, admit water into boreholes, and tamp material to compact charges.
- Pour water into wells, or pump water or slush into wells to cool drill bits and to remove drillings.
- Mop or pour hot asphalt or tar onto roof bases.
- Precast terrazzo blocks in wooden forms.
- Pour specified amounts of chemical solutions into stripping tanks.
- Backfill piping trenches to protect pipes from damage.
- Mix or pour concrete into forms to encase waste material for disposal.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Mix and pour concrete around bases of posts, or tamp soil into postholes to embed posts.
- Signal truck driver to position truck to facilitate pouring concrete, and move chute to direct concrete on forms.
- Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
- Fill water tanks and check tanks, pipes, and fittings for leaks.
- Mix, pour, or spread concrete, using portable cement mixers.
- Dig holes, set forms, and mix and pour concrete into forms to make foundations for wood or steel derricks.
- Signal truck driver to position truck to facilitate pouring concrete and move chute to direct concrete on forms.