The word of the day is sandhog:
U.S. a man who works underground, as in a caisson or in foundation-work; also fig. (OED)
"'We're like the aboveground sandhogs,' Bill Fitzgerald, the former director of operations at Palladium Window Solutions, which held the contract for the Hearst Tower for several years, told me one afternoon in the cluttered and windowless basement room that served as his midtown office."
- Adam Higginbotham, "Life at the top: What a window washer sees", 4 February 2013 The New Yorker
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