quarry worker
Pit mine laborer
A quarry worker extracts stone, sand, gravel, or other materials from an open pit mine.
The work involves operating heavy machinery, drilling, blasting, and moving raw materials.
Quarry work is physically demanding and historically dangerous: His grandfather spent forty years as a quarry worker in the limestone pits.
- chiselEdged carving implement
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
- dustFine settled particles
- lung diseaseIllness of breathing organs
stone block · sledgehammer · pickaxe · blast · dynamite · rockface · rubble · excavation · open pit · limestone · slate · crusher · hard hat · safety goggles · calloused · sweat · heavy lifting · drill
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, hired hands
- quarryingquarryman, stone blocks, crushed stone, building stone, rock face
- stoneworkersstonemason, stone mason, mason, stonecutter, quarryman
- marble industryextraction, slab, tile, block, polishing
- minersminer, coal miner, gold miner, forty-niner, overman
quarry workerstonemason
One who shapes rock
bricklayer · builder · construction worker · sculptor · mason
quarry workeroffice worker
Indoor professional employee
white-collar worker · accountant · clerk · bureaucrat · software developer
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