Boilermakers Local Union #154 represents more than 2,000 members in western Pennsylvania, two counties in Ohio and two counties in West Virginia. Boilermakers possess a full range of knowledge and skills required to work in the boilermaker construction industry. These duties include boiler making, welding, acetylene burning, asbestos abatement, chipping, caulking, reaming, fiberglass laminating, fitting-up, grinding, rigging, riveting, scaffold erection and dismantling, stack work, steel erection, tube rolling, impact machine operating and other work activities. The broad scope of the boilermaker trade includes construction and maintenance work performed on a variety of project work sites in industrial and commercial plants such as cement plants, fertilizer plants, water treatment facilities, breweries, steel mills, power plants, electric power generation plants, gas turbines, gas processing plants, refineries, pulp and paper mills, and many other industrial and commercial facilities.