Illinois Administrative Code › Title 62 - MINING › Part 225 - USE OF PERMISSIBLE EXPLOSIVES IN UNDERGROUND COAL MINES › Section 225.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of this part only, the following words
				mean:
"Act" means the Coal Mining Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch.
				961/2, par. 251 et. seq.)
"Acceptable container" means any sturdy container, in good
				condition, lined with nonsparking material. (e.g, solid wood of substantial or
				other nonsparking material of equal or greater strength).
"Approved container" means any container made of nonsparking
				material used to hold temporarily permissible explosives and electric
				detonators at the working face.
"Blasting Cable" means a two-conductor cable used for
				completing the circuit between the electric blasting cap and the electrical
				source to fire the electric blasting cap.
"Borehole" means a hole drilled into the working face for
				inserting permissible explosives.
"Electric blasting cap" means an electric detonator containing
				a charge of detonating compound which electric current ignites.
"Electric detonator" means a device which detonates a
				high-explosive charge by electrical ignition.
"Interval delay" means a device that helps control the blast
				sequence.
"Leg wire" means a wire attached to and forming a part of an
				electrical blasting cap.
"Magazine" means building or structure specially constructed to
				store permissible explosives.
"Mine Manager" means the person charged with the general
				direction of the underground work. Section 1.09 of Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985
				ch. 96 1/2, par. 259).
"Mining Board" means the board created under Section 2.01 and
				2.02 of the Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 961/2, pars. 301, 302) and Section
				5.04 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch.
				1271/2, par. 5.04).
"Misfire" means the complete or partial failure of a blasting
				charge to explode as planned.
"Permissible explosives" means any chemical compound, mixture,
				or device, the primary purpose of which is to function by explosion, which
				explodes from an instantaneous release of gas and heat and will not cause the
				ignition of mixtures of methane and air when detonated The Mine Safety and
				Health Administration must have approved it under
				30 CFR
				15.1 - 15.24(1986). (The reference includes
				no later editions or amendments.)
"Primer" means a cartridge of permissible explosive with a cap
				in place to set off the permissible explosive.
"Shot Firer" means a person other than the mine manager or the
				section foreman whom the Mining Board has certified under Sections
				225.80.
"Shunt" means to connect together the wires from a cap or a
				circuit in order to create a short circuit to prevent stray current from firing
				blasting caps.
"Stemming" means inert material packed between the permissible
				explosive charge and the out end of the borehole.
"Tamping" means the act of inserting, packing, stemming
				permissible explosives in a borehole.
"Tamping bar" means a rod made of wood or metal bar, tipped
				with five (5) inches of copper and is used to push permissible explosive
				charges into a borehole.
"Working face" means the vertical wall where a coal company is
				removing the coal.