The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-01-20
.DOKTs FROM DUPONT
WORTH REMEMBERING
LIST OF THINGS NOT TO DO IN
REGARD TO HANDLING or
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.


they can be handled with comparative
safety
Don't smoke while you are handling
explosives, and don't handle explosives
near an open light.
/ Don't carry loose matches in your
pockets while loading explosives, use
safety matches.
Don't shoot into explosives with a
rifle or pistol either In or out of a
magazine
Don't allow hunting or shooting near
magazines.
Don't leave explosives In a field or
any place where stock can get at them.
Cattle like the taste of the soda and
saltpetre In explosives, but the other
ingredients would probably make them
sick or kill them.
Don't handle or store explosives in or
near residence
Don't leave explosives in wet or
damp place. They should be kept In a
suitable, dry place, under lock and
key and where children or irresponsi-
BILE persons can not get at them
Don't explode charge to chamber
a bore hole and then Immediately re-
load it, as the bore hole will be hot
and the second charge may explode
prematurely.
Don't do tamping with iron or steel
bars or tools. Use only wooden
tamping stick with no metal parts.
Don't force cartridge of explosive
into a bore hole.
Don't hurry in seeking an explana-
ton for the failure of charge to ex-
plode.
Don't drill, bore or pick out charge
which has failed to explode. Drill and
charge another bore hole at safe dis
lance from the missed one
Don't use two kinds of explosives in
the same bore hole except where one
is used as a primer to detonate the
other. as where dynamite is used to
er explosive may open cracks in the
rock and allow the slower to blow out
through these cracks, doing little or
no work.
Don't use frozen or chilled explo-
sives. Dynamite other than the low
freezing kind often freezes at tenn
perature between As degrees f. and 50
degrees F.
Don't thaw dynamite on heated
stoves, rocks, bricks or metal, or in an
oven, and don't thaw dynamite in
front of, near or over steam boiler
or fire Of any kind
Don't take dynamite into or near a
shop or near a forge on
open work.
Don't put dynamite on shelves or
anything else directly over steam or
hot water pipes or other heated metal
surface
Don't cut or break dynamite car |
ridge while 1t is frozen. and don't rub !
| cartridge of dynamite In the hands |
o complete thawing
Don't heat a thawing house with
'ipes containing steam under pressure.
Don't place a hot water thawer over
! fire, ana never put dynamite into
Iot water or allow it to come into con-
act with steam.
Don't allow thawed dynamite to re-
1ain exposed to low temperature, but
Sc as soon as possible.
Don't paint roof black.
Don't use high explosives or deton-
tors in direct rays of sun longer than
ecessary
Don't allow printing (the placing of
blasting cap or electric blasting cap |
dynamite) to be done in thawing
ouse. !
Don't carry blasting caps or electric S
lasting caps in your pocket. 1
Don't tamper with, pick at or other
Use investigate a blasting cap or an
ectric blasting cap : :
Don't attempt to take blasting caps 7
ON the box by inserting a wire nail /
: other sharp instrument. I
Don't try to withdraw the wires =
om an electric blasting cap. +
Don't fasten blasting cap to the F
Sc with the teeth or by flattening It !,
It'll a knife-use a cap crimpsr. r
Don't keep electric blasting caps, G
asting machines or blasting caps in II
damp place. v
Don't insert blasting cap or electric I,
lsting cap in explosive cartridges M
Have closed end of deton- n
or point toward the bulk of the D.
arge and have 1t tied to the car D,
dye securely. r,
Don't store or transport blasting 81
IS or electric blasting caps with 2.
h explosives. e.,
Don't handle fuse carelessly in cold Su
ather, for when cold II is stiff and Sa
axis easily and should be warmed &c
shtly before using. w
'on't store fuse in a hot place. as 70
may dry 1t out so that uncoiling !.
break 1t. ~