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Process animal carcasses

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 Process animal carcasses, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Clean, trim, slice, and section carcasses for future processing.Stays human Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Remove parts, such as skin, feathers, scales or bones, from carcass.Stays human Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Clean and salt hides.Stays human Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.Stays human Slaughterers and Meat Packers