A professional who cuts bones from standard cuts of meat, such as chucks, hams, loins, plates, rounds, and shanks to prepare meat for packing and marketing, using knife and meat hook. Respnsibilities include:

• Inserts knife in meat around bones to separate meat, fat, or tissue.
• Pulls and twists bones loose from meat.
• Cuts and trims such meat cuts as butts, hams, flanks, and shoulders to shape meat and remove fat and defects.
• Trims meat from bones and ribs.
• May pull bones and skin from cooked pigs feet, and cut out toe bones and nails.
• May be designated according to cut of meat boned as blade boner; chuck boner; ham boner; or type of animal boned as beef boner; hog ribber; sheep boner.
• May be designated: loin boner; plate boner; rib boner; round boner; shank boner; shoulder boner.