| Category |
Activity |
| occupation |
police, driving a squad car, sitting |
| occupation |
police, riding in a squad car, sitting |
| occupation |
police, making an arrest, standing |
| occupation |
postal carrier, walking to deliver mail |
| occupation |
shoe repair, general |
| occupation |
shoveling, digging ditches |
| occupation |
shoveling, more than 16 lbs/minute, deep digging, vigorous effort |
| occupation |
shoveling, less than 10 lbs/minute, moderate effort |
| occupation |
shoveling, 10 to 15 lbs/minute, vigorous effort |
| occupation |
sitting tasks, light effort (e.g., office work, chemistry lab work, computer work, light assembly repair, watch repair, reading, desk work) |
| occupation |
sitting meetings, light effort, general, and/or with talking involved (e.g., eating at a business meeting) |
| occupation |
sitting tasks, moderate effort (e.g., pushing heavy levers, riding mower/forklift, crane operation) |
| occupation |
sitting, teaching stretching or yoga, or light effort exercise class |
| occupation |
standing tasks, light effort (e.g., bartending, store clerk, assembling, filing, duplicating, librarian, putting up a Christmas tree, standing and talking at work, changing clothes when teaching physical education, standing) |
| occupation |
standing, light/moderate effort (e.g., assemble/repair heavy parts, welding,stocking parts,auto repair,standing, packing boxes, nursing patient care) |
| occupation |
standing, moderate effort, lifting items continuously, 10 – 20 lbs, with limited walking or resting |
| occupation |
standing, moderate effort, intermittent lifting 50 lbs, hitch/twisting ropes |
| occupation |
standing, moderate/heavy tasks (e.g., lifting more than 50 lbs, masonry, painting, paper hanging) |
| occupation |
steel mill, moderate effort (e.g., fettling, forging, tipping molds) |
| occupation |
steel mill, vigorous effort (e.g., hand rolling, merchant mill rolling, removing slag, tending furnace) |
| occupation |
tailoring, cutting fabric |
| occupation |
tailoring, general |
| occupation |
tailoring, hand sewing |
| occupation |
tailoring, machine sewing |
| occupation |
tailoring, pressing |