A professional who inspects unfinished hose or socks for defects and conformance to specifications. Responsibilities include:

• Draws hose or socks over inspection board and inspects items for defects, such as holes, runs, torn threads, dropped stitches, and defective looping or seaming.
• Turns form to inspect both sides of items.
• Clips loose threads from items, using scissors or electric clipper with suction attachment that removes loose threads.
• Strips items from board if board is not equipped with automatic turning and stripping device.
• Sorts items according to type of imperfection.
• Marks production ticket.
• May bag first quality items for dyeing.
• May mark defective area of items for mending, using crayon.
• May inspect items conveyed by pneumatic tube to inspection station and press control to stop and flag specific machine causing defects in items.
• May depress pedal to rotate inspection board during inspection of items.
• May inspect items by hand.
• Where inspection is performed after each operation, may be designated knitting inspector; looping inspector; seaming inspector.
• May be designated according to type of item inspected as sock examiner.