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Order III. MINING AND QUARRYING OCCUPATIONS
Code 054: Other Workers Below Ground

onsetter ; bottomer, cage attendant, cager, cager-on, hanger-on, hitcher, hooker-on, shaft foot man

stands at bottom of shaft to put full tubs into cage and remove empty ones; also signals to winding engine- man for raising or lowering of ca.ge by means of hell signals.

A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.