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laundry laborer

A professional who prepares laundry for processing and distributes laundry, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:

  • Opens bundles of soiled laundry.
  • Places bundles onto conveyor belt or drops down chute for distribution to marking and classification sections.
  • Weighs laundry on scales and records weight on tickets.
  • Removes bundles from conveyor and distributes to workers, using handtruck.
  • Fastens identification pins or clips onto laundry to facilitate subsequent assembly of customers' orders.
  • Sorts net bags containing clean wash according to customers' identification tags.
  • Sorts empty net bags according to color and size.
  • Collects identification tags from lots of laundered articles for reuse.
  • Moistens clean wash preparatory to ironing.
  • Operates power hoist to load and unload washing machines and extractors.
  • Stacks linen supplies on storage room shelves.
  • Unloads soiled linen from trucks.
  • May be designated according to duties performed as Bundle Weigher; Chute Worker; Clipper; Linen-Supply-Room Worker; Net Sorter.
  • May be designated. Respnsibilities include:
  • Pin Sorter And Bagger; Pin Worker; Washing-Machine Loader II.
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