bridge worker

Steel beam installer

A bridge worker is someone employed in the construction, maintenance, or repair of bridges.

The term covers a range of trades—ironworkers, welders, painters, inspectors—united by the structure they work on rather than a specific skill: Bridge workers suspended from cables repainted the span over three months.

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construction · hard hat area · harness · scaffolding · girder · steel beam · beam · cable · suspension · span · heights · high wire act · hardhat · climbing · bolts · crane · overpass · rivets

Opposites
infrastructure type

bridge workertunnel worker

miner · sewer worker · well digger · pipeline worker

physical vs. cognitive labor

bridge workercivil engineer

Public works designer

office worker · project manager

Family

bridge, worker, bridges, bridged, bridging, work, works, worked, working

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