Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 805 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET
Chapter 4 - Division of Explosives and Blasting
Section 805 KAR 4:087 - Explosives
Universal Citation: 805 KY Admin Regs Service 4:087
Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 3, September 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 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 unassembled components of explosives, and the maintenance of such explosives which has a direct bearing on safety to life and property. This administrative regulation effects the provisions of that law.
Section 1.
(1) Explosive magazines shall be posted with
suitable danger signs so located that a bullet passing through the face of a
sign will not strike the magazine.
(2) Containers of explosives or blasting
agents shall be stacked in a stable manner, but not more than eight (8) feet
high.
(3) Ammonium nitrate fuel oil
blasting agents shall be physically separated from other explosives, safety
fuse, or detonating cord stored in the same magazine and in such a manner that
oil does not contaminate the other explosives, safety fuse or detonating
cord.
(4) Special precautions shall
be taken when blasting in close proximity to underground operations, and no
blasting shall be done which would be hazardous to persons working
underground.
(5) Only nonsparking
implements shall be used to punch holes in an explosive cartridge.
(6) Delay connectors for firing detonating
cord shall be treated and handled with the same safety precautions as blasting
caps and electric detonators.
(7)
Primers containing a detonator shall be prepared with the detonator container
securely and completely within the explosive charge or within a suitable tunnel
or cap well.
(8) Explosives or
blasting agents shall be kept separate from detonators until charging is
started.
(9) Ammonium nitrate and
the components used for the sensitizing thereof shall be stored, mixed,
transported and used in accordance with the recommendations in Bureau of Mines
Information Circular 8179, "Safety Recommendations for Sensitized Ammonium
Nitrate Blasting Agents," or subsequent revisions.
(10) Excessive force shall not be used in
assembling any connecting device or primer cartridges. No tool shall be used to
dislodge a detonator, or a component containing a detonator, from a
primer.
(11) A cast primer or
booster shall not be used if the hole for the detonator is too small to accept
the detonator; no one shall enlarge a hole or cap well in a cast primer or
booster to accept a detonator.
(12)
No detonator shall come in contact with a high explosive cartridge until the
primer is being assembled, and immediately upon assembly, the primer shall be
loaded into the borehole.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS Chapter 13A, 351.335
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