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O*NET detailed work activityDig holes or trenches
Stays humanHands-on work
15 jobs18 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Perform general construction or extraction activities, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 18 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Dig trenches to desired or required depths, by hand or using trenching tools.
- Dig holes, using augers, and set poles, using cranes and power equipment.
- Dig postholes, using spades, posthole diggers, or power-driven augers.
- Perform physically demanding tasks, such as digging trenches to lay conduit or moving or lifting heavy objects.
- Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, or rakes.
- Dig trenches or holes for installation of conduit or supports.
- Dig out sewer lines manually, using shovels.
- Excavate and grade ditches, and lay and join pipe for water and sewer service.
- Dig trench for foundation of monument, using pick and shovel.
- Cut trenches for laying underground cables, using trenchers and cable plows.
- Dig holes or trenches as necessary for equipment installation and access.
- Dig trenches.
- Dig trenches for underground wires or cables.
- Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures.
- Dig drainage ditches around wells and storage tanks.
- Dig holes, set forms, and mix and pour concrete into forms to make foundations for wood or steel derricks.
- Dig trenches for system piping to appropriate depths and lay piping in trenches.
- Dig holes for power poles, using power augers or shovels, set poles in place with cranes, and hoist poles upright, using winches.