What this code covers
Fur and leather preparing machine operators operate and monitor various machines that prepare leather or treat fur or wool-bearing pelts. They trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs. Their tasks include: a) operating and monitoring machines which remove flesh and fat from hides or pelts to clean and soften them prior to processing; b) operating and monitoring machines which remove long coarse hair from fur pelts, trim hair to even length and dye, stretch and smooth dressed pelts; c) operating and monitoring machines to remove epidermis hair roots, pigment cells and lime salts from grain side of skin; d) operating and monitoring machines to reduce thickness of hide or skin to uniform size; e) operating and monitoring machines to polish or roughen hides or skins to specified finish; f) operating and monitoring machines which separate residual wool from skins, or flesh and hair from hides; g) operating and monitoring machines in which hides are split edgeways to form two or more pieces or to give uniform thickness; h) operating and monitoring machines which treat hides and skins in solutions to convert them into leather; i) treating surface of leather with oil and operating glazing machine to give glossy finish to leather; j) operating and monitoring machines which apply dyes and stains to leather; k) maintaining and repairing vats and other machinery. Examples of the occupations classified here: Dehairing/hide machine operator, Staining/leather machine operator, Tanning machine operator Some related occupations classified elsewhere: Pelt dyer - 7535, Tanner - 7535