Install equipment attachments or components.

Install equipment attachments or components. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 10 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Set up equipment. in Handling and Moving Objects .

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 9 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).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.002% per task.

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.

• Position bolting machines, and insert drill bits into chucks. · Roof Bolters, Mining · importance 4.9 · no direct exposure
• Remove drill bits from chucks after drilling holes, and insert bolts into chucks. · Roof Bolters, Mining · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Monitor progress of drilling operations, and select and change drill bits according to the nature of strata, using hand tools. · Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Connect hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages, or power takeoff shafts to tractors. · Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Select and fasten bulldozer blades or other attachments to tractors, using hitches. · Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Set up and adjust machines and equipment. · First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Install rotary knives on flexible cables mounted on machine reels, according to the diameters of pipes to be cleaned. · Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Start machines to feed revolving cables or rods into openings, stopping machines and changing knives to conform to pipe sizes. · Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners · importance 3.5 · no direct exposure
• Install dies, cutters, and extensions to screeds onto machines, using hand tools. · Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators · importance 3.3 · no direct exposure
• Install medical equipment. · 49-9062.00

Occupations that perform this

• Roof Bolters, Mining
• Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
• Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
• First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
• Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
• Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
• 49-9062.00

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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “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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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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