Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 805 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET
Chapter 4 - Division of Explosives and Blasting
Section 805 KAR 4:005 - Definitions
Universal Citation: 805 KY Admin Regs Service 4:005
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, December 1, 2023
RELATES TO: KRS 351.315, 351.330, 351.335, 351.350
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 351.335 requires the Department for Natural Resources to promulgate rules and administrative regulations concerning the manufacture, transportation, sale, storage, or use of explosives, and the maintenance of such explosives which has a direct bearing on safety to life and property. This administrative regulation provides the definitions applicable to the provisions of that law.
Section 1.
(1) "Artificial barricade" means an
artificial mound or revetted wall of earth of a minimum thickness of three (3)
feet, or any other approved barricade that offers equivalent
protection.
(2) "Barricaded" means
the effective screening of a magazine containing explosive materials from
another magazine, a building, a railway, or a highway, either by a natural or
artificial barricade. To be properly barricaded, a straight line from the top
of any sidewall of the magazine to the eave line of any other magazine or
building, or to a point twelve (12) feet above the center of a railway or
highway will pass through the barricade.
(3) "Blast area" means the area in which
explosives loading and blasting operations are being conducted.
(4) "Blasting agent" means any material or
mixture consisting of a fuel and oxidizer used for blasting, but not classified
an explosive and in which none of the ingredients is classified as an explosive
provided the furnished (mixed) product cannot be detonated with a No. 8 test
blasting cap when confined.
(5)
"Blasting cap" means a metallic tube closed at one end, containing a charge of
one or more detonating compounds, and designed for detonation from the sparks
or flame from a safety fuse inserted and crimped into the open end.
(6) "Block holing" means the breaking of
boulders by firing a charge of explosives that has been loaded in a drill
hole.
(7) "Conveyance" means any
unit for transporting explosives or blasting agents, including but not limited
to trucks, trailers, rail cars, barges, and vessels.
(8) "Detonating cord" means a flexible cord
containing a center core of high explosives which, when detonated, will have
sufficient strength to detonate other cap-sensitive explosives with which it is
in contact.
(9) "Detonator" means
blasting caps, electric blasting caps, delay electric blasting caps, and
nonelectric delay blasting caps.
(10) "Electric cap" means a blasting cap
designed for and capable of detonation by means of an electric blasting
current.
(11) "Electric delay
blasting caps" means caps designed to detonate at a predetermined period of
time after energy is applied to the ignition system.
(12) "Flyrock" means any dirt, mud, stone,
fragmented rock or other material that is displaced from the blast site by
being thrown in the air or cast along the ground.
(13) "High explosives" means any material
that will detonate when initiated by a blasting cap and where the chemical
reaction proceeds at supersonic velocities and produces high temperature, high
pressure gases and an associated shock wave.
(14) "Fuse lighters" means special devices
for the purpose of igniting a safety fuse.
(15) "Low explosives" are materials which
deflagrate producing high temperature, high pressure gases. They may be
initiated with a blasting cap, or by flame, heat or impact, however, they do
not present a mass detonation hazard.
(16) "Magazine" means any building or
structure, other than an explosives manufacturing building, used for the
storage of explosives.
(17)
"Misfire" means an explosive charge which failed to detonate.
(18) "Mud capping" (also known as bulldozing,
adobe blasting, or dobying) means a method of blasting by placing a quantity of
explosives in contact with a rock, boulder, or other object without confining
the explosives in a drill hole.
(19) "Natural barricade" means hills or
timber of sufficient density that the surrounding exposures which require
protection cannot be seen from the magazine when the trees are bare of
leaves.
(20) "Nonelectric delay
blasting cap" means a blasting cap with an integral delay element in
conjunction with and capable of being detonated by a detonation impulse or
signal for miniaturized detonating cord.
(21) "Primer" means a cartridge or container
of explosives into which a detonator or detonating cord is inserted or
attached.
(22) "Safety fuse" means
a flexible cord containing an internal burning medium by which fire is conveyed
at a continuous and uniform rate for the purpose of firing blasting
caps.
(23) "Stemming" means a
suitable inert incombustible material or device used to confine or separate
explosives in a drill hole, or to cover explosives in mud capping.
(24) "Springing" means the creation of a
pocket in the bottom of a drill hole by the use of a moderate quantity of
explosives in order that larger quantities of explosives may be inserted
therein.
2 Ky.R. 609; 3 Ky.R. 318; eff. 9-1-1976; 4 Ky.R. 301; eff. 5-3-1978; 19 Ky.R. 2327; eff. 6-7-1993; Re-codified from 805 KAR 4:070, 6-8-1993; TAm eff. 8-9-2007; Crt eff. 6-27-2018.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS Chapter 13A, 351.335
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