Inspect boarding and locking of open-top box cars and wedging of side-drop and hopper cars to prevent loss of material in transit.

“Inspect boarding and locking of open-top box cars and wedging of side-drop and hopper cars to prevent loss of material in transit.” is a supplemental task performed by Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining. Among the occupation's 28 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#26 most important).

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.

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

• Handle high voltage sources and hang electrical cables. · importance 4.6
• Drive loaded shuttle cars to ramps and move controls to discharge loads into mine cars or onto conveyors. · importance 4.5
• Pry off loose material from roofs and move it into the paths of machines, using crowbars. · importance 4.4
• Move trailing electrical cables clear of obstructions, using rubber safety gloves. · importance 4.4
• Stop gathering arms when cars are full. · importance 4.4
• Control conveyors that run the entire length of shuttle cars to distribute loads as loading progresses. · importance 4.3
• Examine roadway and clear obstructions from the path of travel. · importance 4.3
• Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines. · importance 4.3
• Drive machines into piles of material blasted from working faces. · importance 4.3
• Operate levers to move conveyor booms or shovels so that mine contents such as coal, rock, and ore can be placed into cars or onto conveyors. · importance 4.2
• Move mine cars into position for loading and unloading, using pinchbars inserted under car wheels to position cars under loading spouts. · importance 4.2
• Advance machines to gather material and convey it into cars. · importance 4.2
• Clean, fuel, service, and perform safety checks on all equipment, and repair and replace parts as necessary. · importance 4.2
• Clean hoppers, and clean spillage from tracks, walks, driveways, and conveyor decking. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining 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-15196,
  title  = {Inspect boarding and locking of open-top box cars and wedging of side-drop and hopper cars to prevent loss of material in transit.},
  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-15196}
}