Climb equipment or structures to access work areas.

Climb equipment or structures to access work areas. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Climb equipment or structures. in Performing General Physical Activities .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Climb poles or use truck-mounted buckets to access equipment. · Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Climb wind turbine towers to inspect, maintain, or repair equipment. · Wind Turbine Service Technicians · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Climb towers to access components, using safety equipment, such as full-body harnesses. · Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Climb poles and ladders, use truck-mounted booms, and enter areas such as manholes and cable vaults to install, maintain, or inspect equipment. · Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Climb communication towers to install, replace, or repair antennas or auxiliary equipment used to transmit and receive radio waves. · Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Work on high ceilings, using scaffolding or other tools, such as stilts. · Tapers · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Access specific areas to string lines, or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances, using bucket trucks, climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces. · Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Climb scaffolding, carrying hoses, and spray surfaces of cupolas with refractory mixtures, using spray equipment. · Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
• Wind Turbine Service Technicians
• Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers
• Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
• Tapers
• Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
• Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Climb equipment or structures to access work areas.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/climb-equipment-or-structures-to-access-work-areas}
}