A professional who performs any combination of following duties involved in emptying coke oven. Respnsibilities include:

• Scrapes coke from coke oven, using iron rod (scraper).
• Forks coke onto conveyor that dumps coke in railroad cars.
• Picks foreign matter, such as slate and slag, from coke on conveyor.
• May fork coke into wheelbarrow and push wheelbarrow to railroad cars.
• May apply brakes or place car-stop to hold railroad cars under coke-pushing machine.
• May place firebrick doors in oven doorframe, using overhead hoist, to close oven.
• May seal doors of ovens, using firebricks and loam.