A professional who skins sections of animals or whole animals, such as cattle, sheep, and hogs, performing any combination of following tasks as member of a crew. Respnsibilities include:

• Slits skin on head of carcass, and pulls and cuts connective tissue until head and neck are exposed, using knife.
• Severs head from carcass of animal, using knife and cleaver and places it on racks for inspection.
• Trims meat or fat from head skins.
• Slits remaining hide on carcass from breastbone to crotch.
• Pulls, cuts, and forces hand between hide and carcass to break connective tissue and separate it from neck, sides, shoulders, flanks, back, and tail of suspended carcass.
• Breaks and severs legs at knee joint, and removes such parts as dew claws, bungs, tails, and genital organs.
• Raises cattle from floor, using hoist, and pulls hide off carcass by hand or using pinchers.
• Severs and exposes gullet and windpipe on small stock, using knife, and ties gullet to prevent leakage of fluid when viscera is removed.
• Slits womb of cattle with knife to remove slunk (unborn calf).
• Shackles neck of slunk and pulls off skin, using winch.
• May saw brisket bone on cattle.
• May skin pork, using drawknife.
• May be designated according to kind of animal or portion of carcass skinned as backer; calf skinner; cattle header; slunk skinner.
• May be designated: cattle dropper and pritcher; leg skinner; shoulder puncher; small-stock facer.