Individuals who operate or tend machinery equipped with scoops, shovels or buckets to dig and load sand, gravel, earth or similar materials into trucks or onto conveyors; move construction materials, earth and other heavy materials; apply asphalt and concrete to roads, parking lots, airport runways and taxiways and other structures; compact earth and other fill materials for roadbeds; or hammer piles into the ground. Piles are long heavy beams of wood or steel driven into the ground to support retaining walls, bulkheads, bridges, piers or building foundations. They may also operate rotary, churn or pneumatic drills and other types of drilling equipment to tap sub-surface water and salt deposits, remove core samples during mineral exploration or soil testing, and facilitate the use of explosives in mining or construction.
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