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Will AI Replace Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining?
Operate underground loading or moving machine to load or move coal, ore, or rock using shuttle or mine car or conveyors. Equipment may include power shovels, hoisting engines equipped with cable-drawn scraper or scoop, or machines equipped with gathering arms and conveyor.
69out of 100
High Risk
AI Risk Score
69/100
Risk Level
High
Job Zone
2/5
Entry
Total Tasks Analyzed
15
🤖 What AI Can Do
- ▸Monitor loading processes to ensure that materials are loaded according to specifications.
- ▸Measure, weigh, or verify levels of rock, gravel, or other excavated material to prevent equipment overloads.
👤 What Requires Humans
- ▸Drive loaded shuttle cars to ramps and move controls to discharge loads into mine cars or onto conveyors.
- ▸Drive machines into piles of material blasted from working faces.
- ▸Clean, fuel, service, and perform safety checks on all equipment, and repair and replace parts as necessary.
Task Breakdown
🤖AI Can Automate (2)
- Monitor loading processes to ensure that materials are loaded according to specifications.
- Measure, weigh, or verify levels of rock, gravel, or other excavated material to prevent equipment overloads.
👤Requires Humans (3)
- Drive loaded shuttle cars to ramps and move controls to discharge loads into mine cars or onto conveyors.
- Drive machines into piles of material blasted from working faces.
- Clean, fuel, service, and perform safety checks on all equipment, and repair and replace parts as necessary.
⚡AI-Assisted (10)
- Handle high voltage sources and hang electrical cables.
- Pry off loose material from roofs and move it into the paths of machines, using crowbars.
- Move trailing electrical cables clear of obstructions, using rubber safety gloves.
- Control conveyors that run the entire length of shuttle cars to distribute loads as loading progresses.
- Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines.
- Examine roadway and clear obstructions from the path of travel.
- Operate levers to move conveyor booms or shovels so that mine contents such as coal, rock, and ore can be placed into cars or onto conveyors.
- Clean hoppers, and clean spillage from tracks, walks, driveways, and conveyor decking.
Key Skills Analysis
Operation and Control
Importance: 3.38/5.00
Operations MonitoringAI-Vulnerable
Importance: 3.25/5.00
Troubleshooting
Importance: 3.12/5.00
Active Listening
Importance: 3.00/5.00
Speaking
Importance: 3.00/5.00
Critical ThinkingAI-Resistant
Importance: 3.00/5.00
CoordinationAI-Resistant
Importance: 3.00/5.00
Equipment Maintenance
Importance: 3.00/5.00
Reading ComprehensionAI-Vulnerable
Importance: 2.88/5.00
Monitoring
Importance: 2.88/5.00
Social PerceptivenessAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.88/5.00
Repairing
Importance: 2.75/5.00
Complex Problem SolvingAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.62/5.00
Equipment SelectionAI-Vulnerable
Importance: 2.50/5.00
Judgment and Decision MakingAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.38/5.00
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Frequently Asked Questions
Based on our analysis, Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining have a high risk of AI replacement with a score of 69/100. Many routine tasks in this role can be automated, but human oversight remains important.
Last updated: 2026-03-28· Data from O*NET 30.2 & Frey/Osborne automation research