Install various types of bolts, including truss, glue, and resin bolts, traversing entire ceiling spans.

“Install various types of bolts, including truss, glue, and resin bolts, traversing entire ceiling spans.” is a core task performed by Roof Bolters, Mining. Among the occupation's 14 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#9 most important). About 100% 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.

• Build structures. in Handling and Moving Objects

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

• Drill bolt holes into roofs at specified distances from ribs or adjacent bolts. · importance 4.9
• Pull down loose rock that cannot be supported. · importance 4.9
• Position bolting machines, and insert drill bits into chucks. · importance 4.9
• Perform safety checks on equipment before operating. · importance 4.9
• Perform tests to determine if methane gas is present. · importance 4.9
• Perform ventilation tasks, such as hanging ventilation curtains and tubes. · importance 4.9
• Force bolts into holes, using hydraulic mechanisms of self-propelled bolting machines. · importance 4.9
• Dust rocks after bolting. · importance 4.8
• Drill test holes and test bolts for specified tension, using torque wrenches. · importance 4.8
• Position safety jacks to support underground mine roofs until bolts can be installed. · importance 4.7
• Rotate chucks to turn bolts and open expansion heads against rock formations. · importance 4.7
• Remove drill bits from chucks after drilling holes, and insert bolts into chucks. · importance 4.6
• Tighten ends of anchored truss bolts, using turnbuckles. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Roof Bolters, 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-21022,
  title  = {Install various types of bolts, including truss, glue, and resin bolts, traversing entire ceiling spans.},
  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-21022}
}