Guide and assist crews laying track and resetting supports and blocking.

“Guide and assist crews laying track and resetting supports and blocking.” is a supplemental task performed by Continuous Mining Machine Operators. Among the occupation's 15 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#15 most important). About 45% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Perform general construction or extraction activities. in Performing General Physical Activities
• Direct construction or extraction activities. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Hang ventilation tubing and ventilation curtains to ensure that the mining face area is kept properly ventilated. · importance 4.8
• Conduct methane gas checks to ensure breathing quality of air. · importance 4.7
• Check the stability of roof and rib support systems before mining face areas. · importance 4.7
• Operate mining machines to gather coal and convey it to floors or shuttle cars. · importance 4.6
• Drive machines into position at working faces. · importance 4.5
• Move controls to start and regulate movement of conveyors and to start and position drill cutters or torches. · importance 4.5
• Reposition machines to make additional holes or cuts. · importance 4.5
• Determine locations, boundaries, and depths of holes or channels to be cut. · importance 4.4
• Install casings to prevent cave-ins. · importance 4.4
• Observe and listen to equipment operation to detect binding or stoppage of tools or other equipment malfunctions. · importance 4.3
• Scrape or wash conveyors, using belt scrapers or belt washers, to minimize dust production. · importance 4.2
• Move levers to raise and lower hydraulic safety bars supporting roofs above machines until other workers complete framing. · importance 4.2
• Repair, oil, and adjust machines, and change cutting teeth, using wrenches. · importance 4.2
• Apply new technologies developed to minimize the environmental impact of coal mining. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Continuous Mining Machine Operators page.

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.

@misc{singulariki-task-14965,
  title  = {Guide and assist crews laying track and resetting supports and blocking.},
  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/tasks/task-14965}
}