The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-22
HANDLING EXPLOSIVES
AND RIGID SAFETY RULES
RULES PROMOTE ECONOMY AS
WELL AS TO PREVENT
ACCIDENTS.

Here are the rules recently promul-
gated by the California Accident COM
mission governing the storage and
use of explosives;
|. Magazines shall not contain
tools other than a wooden mallet and
wedge or a phosphor- bronze chisel.
2. When supplies of explosives or
fuse are removed from magazine,
those that have been longest in the
magazine shall be taken first. Pack
ages of explosives shall be removed a
safe distance from the magazine be-
fore being opened, and such package
shall be opened only with wooden or
bronze tools. Empty or broken boxes,
paper and rubbish shall not be allow
ed to accumulate within 100 feet of a
magazine. Such boxes paper and
rubbish shall be removed to safe
distance Cat least 500 feet) and burn
ed or otherwise disposed of.
g. Packages containing explosives
shall not be opened in a magazine
4. Magazines shall at all times be
kept clean and dry. Before repairing
or altering magazine explosives
shall be carefully removed and the
magazine cleaned thoroughly. Nails or
screws must not protrude from any
part of the interior of magazine.
5. No decorators shall be taken
into magazine containing other ex-
plosives,
6. No detonators shall be trans
ported in the same receptacle with
other explosives.
I. Decorators shall not be removed
from original container except as they
are used for Gaping fuses.
s. Explosives shall not be thawed
lin a magazine where other explosives
are kept.
+ 9, Explosives shall not be thawed
in any device other than a room, box
or other receptacle heated by exhaust
steam, hot water, manure or electric
ity If steam or water be the agent
employed the stove, boiler or other
primary source of heat shall not be
nearer to the thawing room than 10
feet Explosives shall not be thawed
by direct contact with steam. If an
electric current be the thawing agent
the current shall not be brought with
in five feet Of the explosives to be
thaWed, and in no case shall explo-
siVes while being thawed be exposed
to temperature higher than 80 de-
grees Fahrenheit.
10, Explosives shall not be placed
or left within five feet of live electric
wires.
IL. Explosives >hall not be kept
exposed to the sun any longer than is
necessary. Explosives deteriorate
under the direct heat of the sun.
II, No person shall remove explo-
sives from a magazine without the
written or verbal orders of the super
intendent or foreman of the job.
10. Fire eXtinguishers or hydrants
and hose shall be provided and kept
ready near all powder magazines for
use in case of fire outside the maya
zine.
IA. Smoking in a powder magazine
or while handling powder, or entering
a magazine with an open light is pro-
hibited.
Order 1106; Fuse.
|. Nc fuse shall be used for blast
ing that burns faster than one foot in
80 seconds or slower than one foot in
So seconds Only fuse of sufficient
length shall be used so as to allow the
men to retire to a point of safety be-
fore firing a hole or round of holes.
Under no circumstances shall fuse
less than Y feet long be used.
,. Caps and electric fuses are ex-
tremely sensitive hence it is forbidden
to carry them in ones pocket or store
them in buildings except magazine
as specified in these orders.
3. The use of oil or grease to wat
er proof joints between cap and fuse
is forbidden. This practice causes
misfires. The use of compound sold
by powder manufacturers for water
prooting, such as roofing paint celia
kap, etc, is recommended.
4. In Gaping fuse, at least one
inch shall be cut from the end of each
coil of fuse to be used in blasting.
CThis will prevent damp fuse ends
from getting into the cap).
s. Only a orimper shall be used for
attaching fuse to blasting cap. Crimp-
ing with the teeth or knife is strict
ly forbidden. Crimpers shall be pro-
vided and kept in good repair ready
for use.
6. 1t is forbidden to use fuse that
has been hammered or injured by
falling rocks or from any other cause.
(Such injury may increase the rate of
burning, or may render the fuse en-
tirely useleSs)