Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. Definitions
Explosives and Articles Containing
Explosives-ammunition, black powder, blasting caps, high explosives,
primers, smokeless powder, and all goods classified and defined as explosives
by the Interstate Commerce Commission in regulations governing transportation
of explosives and other dangerous substances by common carriers.
Plant or Establishment Manufacturing or Storing
Explosive Articles-the land with all buildings and structures thereon
which are used in connection with manufacturing, processing, or storing
explosives or articles which contain explosive components.
B. Non-Explosive Area
1. An area which meets all of the following
criteria is deemed a non-explosive area.
a.
No work performed in the area involves handling or use of explosives.
b. The area is separated from the explosive
area by a distance not less than that prescribed in the American Table of
Distances for protection of inhabited buildings.
c. The area is separated from the explosive
area by a fence or is otherwise located so that it constitutes a designated
area.
2. Satisfactory
controls have been established to prevent employees under 18 years of age who
are working within the area from entering any area in or about the plant which
does not meet criteria listed in Subsection C below.
C. Occupations prohibited in plants which
manufacture or store explosives. The following occupations in or about any
plant or establishment which manufactures or stores explosives are prohibited:
1. all occupations in manufacturing, mixing,
transporting, or handling explosive compounds in manufacture of explosives, and
all other occupations which require performance of any duties in an explosive
area in which explosive compounds are manufactured or mixed;
2. all occupations involved in manufacturing,
handling, or transportation of primers, and performance of any other duties in
the same building in which primers are manufactured;
3. all occupations involved in priming
cartridges, and performance of any other duties in the same room in which
cartridges are primed;
4. all
occupations involved in plate loading cartridges and in operation of automatic
loading machines;
5. all
occupations which involve loading, inspecting, packing, storing, and shipping
blasting caps; and
6. all other
occupations in or about any plant or establishment which manufactures or stores
explosives except when such occupation is performed in a non-explosive
area.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
23:161.
