Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 49 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Article 1 - HOURS AND WORKING CONDITIONS; WOMEN AND MINORS
Section 49-1-52 - Occupations in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components
Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 49-1-52
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(1) Occupations.
(a) All occupations in or about
any plant or establishment (other than retail establishments or plants or
establishments of the type described in subparagraph (2) (a) of this paragraph)
manufacturing or storing of explosives or articles containing explosive
components except where the occupation is performed in a "nonexplosives area"
as defined in subparagraph (2) (c) of this section.
(b) The following occupations in or about any
plant or establishment manufacturing or storing small-arms ammunition not
exceeding .60 caliber in size, shotgun shells, or blasting caps when
manufactured or stored in conjunction with the manufacture of small-arms
ammunition:
(1) All occupations involved in
the manufacturing, mixing, transporting, or handling of explosive compounds in
the manufacture of small-arms ammunition and all other occupations requiring
the performance of any duties in the explosives area in which explosive
compounds are manufactured or mixed.
(2) All occupations involved in the
manufacturing, transporting, or handling of primers and all other occupations
requiring the performance of any duties in the same building in which primers
are manufactured.
(3) All
occupations involved in the priming of cartridges and all other occupations
requiring the performance of any duties in the same workroom in which rim-fire
cartridges are primed.
(4) All
occupations involved in the plate loading of cartridges and in the operation of
automatic loading machines.
(5) All
occupations involved in the loading, inspecting, packing, shipping and storage
of blasting caps.
(2) Definitions.
(a) The term "plant or establishment
manufacturing or storing explosive or articles containing explosive components"
means the land with all the buildings and other structures thereon used in
connection with the manufacturing or processing or storing of explosives or
articles containing explosive components.
(b) The terms "explosives" and "articles
containing explosive components" mean and include ammunition, black powder,
blasting caps, fireworks, high explosives, primers, smokeless powder, and all
goods classified and defined as explosives by the interstate commerce
commission in regulations for the transportation of explosives and other
dangerous substances by common carriers.
(c) An area meeting all of the following
criteria shall be deemed a "nonexplosives area":
(1) None of the work performed in the area
involves the handling or use of explosives;
(2) The area is separated from the explosives
area by a distance not less than that prescribed in the American table of
distances for the protection of inhabited buildings;
(3) The area is separated from the explosives
area by a fence or is otherwise located so that it constitutes a definite
designated area; and
(4)
Satisfactory controls have been established to prevent employees under 18 years
of age within the area from entering any area in or about the plant which does
not meet criteria (1) through (3).
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