farmworkers

Plant and harvest sod. Planting, mowing, watering, harvesting, loading using equipment. Sod can weigh anywhere from 10lbs to 25 lbs each piece. Workers may apply seeds to fields by hand or equipment that also handling 50-80 lb bags of seed, fertilizer, hydro mulch and large bales of straw, climbing up and down ladders, clip or mow fields, cut, roll, stack, lay when needed and prepare for shipping of sod. Load and unload trucks by hand or machine. Work fields to prepare for next crop, putting down net material which consists of laying out netting and bending down to the ground or stooping every 3 ft. to put a stake in the ground.

Bending, stooping, standing for long periods at a time, climbing.

Clean and maintain equipment used in sod operations.

Working in extreme weather heat or cold for long hours per day. Working days and hours may vary due to work delays or stoppages caused by too much rain; causes the ground to become too wet to cut or run machines.