A surface worker at a colliery who tends the screening equipment where raw coal is sorted by size. The role involves breaking up oversized lumps, clearing blockages on the shaker screens, and picking out visible pieces of dirt, shale, or pyrites before the coal goes to the wash plant or rail cars.
Heard on the job
We need an extra screenman on the day shift because the continuous miner is sending up a lot of dirt with the coal.
Also heard as
- screener