Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › 349 - Storage, Transportation and Use of Explosives and Blasting Agents › Chapter I - DEFINITIONS › Section 29-349-106 - Terms and definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
When used in these regulations the following terms and
				  definitions shall prevail:
"Approved" shall mean approved by the State Fire
				  Marshal.
"Artificial barricade" shall mean an artificial mound or
				  revetted wall of earth of a minimum thickness of three feet.
"Barricade" shall mean a natural or artificial
				  barricade.
"Barricaded" shall mean that a building containing explosives
				  is effectually screened from a magazine, building, railway or highway, either
				  by a natural barricade or by an artificial barricade of such height that a
				  straight line from the top of any sidewall of the building containing
				  explosives to the eave line of any magazine, or building, or to a point 12 feet
				  above the center of a railway or highway, will pass through such intervening
				  natural or artificial barricade.
"Blasting Agent" shall mean any material or mixture,
				  consisting of a fuel and oxidizer, intended for blasting, not otherwise
				  classified as an explosive and in which none of the ingredients are classified
				  as an explosive, provided that the finished product as mixed and packaged for
				  use or shipment, cannot be detonated by means of a No. 8 test blasting can when
				  unconfined.
NOTE 1. A No. 8 test blasting cap is one containing 2 grams
				  of a mixture of 80% mercury fulminate and 20% potassium chlorate, or a cap of
				  equivalent strength.
NOTE 2: Nitro-Carbo-Nitrate. This term applies to any
				  blasting agent which has been classified as nitro-carbonitrate under the U.S.
				  Department of Transportation Regulations, and which is packaged and shipped in
				  compliance with the regulations of the U.S. Department of
				  Transportation.
"Blasting Cap" shall mean a thin shell closed at one end and
				  containing a detonating charge that is ignited by the flame from safety fuse.
				  It is used for detonating explosives.
"Boosters" shall mean a casing containing several ounces of a
				  high explosive used to increase the intensity of explosion of the detonator or
				  a commercial detonating fuse.
"Carrier" shall mean person, partnerships, associations or
				  corporations who engage in the transportation of articles or materials by rail,
				  highway, water or air.
"Commissioner" shall mean the Commissioner of State Police.
				  "Commercial Detonating Fuse" shall mean a flexible cord with a core of
				  explosives.
"Detonating Primers" shall mean devices used to detonate
				  bursting charges of projectiles for military purposes.
"Distributor" shall mean any person, firm, partnership,
				  asociation or corporation acting as a manufacturer's agent or jobber who deals
				  in explosives and sells to retail dealers or consumers.
"Electric Blasting Cap" shall mean a thin shell closed at
				  both ends containing a detonating charge designed to be ignited by an electric
				  current passed through the two insulated leg wires that project through the
				  seal of the shell.
"Explosives" shall mean any and all explosives as defined in
				  Section
				  29-343
				  of the General Statutes. Explosives are classified as follows:
"Class A Explosives" shall means those possessing detonating
				  or otherwise maximum hazard, such as, but not limited to, dynamite,
				  nitroglycerin, picric acid, lead azide, fulminate of mercury, black powder,
				  blasting caps and detonating primers.
"Class B Explosives" shall mean those possessing flammable
				  hazard, such as propellant explosives (including smokeless powders),
				  photographic flash powders, and some special fireworks.
"Class C Explosives" includes certain types of manufactured
				  articles which contain Class A or Class B explosives, or both, as components
				  but in restricted quantities.
"Explosive Bombs" shall mean a container filled with
				  explosives and provided with a detonating device.
"Explosive-Actuated Power Devices" shall mean any tool or
				  special mechanized device which is actuated by explosives, but not to include
				  propellant-actuated power devices. Examples of explosive-actuated power devices
				  are jet tappers and jet perforators.
"Fire Marshal" shall mean the local fire marshal as defined
				  in Section
				  29-297
				  of the General Statutes.
"Forbidden or Not Acceptable Explosives" shall mean
				  explosives which are forbidden or not acceptable for transportation by common
				  carriers by rail freight, rail express, highway or water in accordance with the
				  regulations or with the regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
				  Certain chemicals and certain fuel materials may have explosive characteristics
				  which are not specifically classified by the U.S. Department of Transportation
				  and are not readily classified for coverage in this code. Authoritative
				  information must be obtained for such unclassified materials and action
				  commensurate with their hazards, location, isolation and safeguards, shall be
				  taken.
"Gunpowder" shall mean smokeless powder intended as a
				  propellant explosive for small arms.
"Highway" shall mean any public street, public alley or
				  public road.
"Inspector" shall mean a member of the State Police
				  Department assigned to inspect premises, equipment, and conditions relative to
				  the storage, transportation and use of explosives.
"Inhabited Building" shall mean a building or structure
				  regularly used in whole or part as a place of human habitation. The term
				  "inhabited building" shall also mean any church, school, store, railway
				  passenger station, airport terminal for passengers, and any other building or
				  structure where people are accustomed to congregate or assemble, but excluding
				  any building or structure occupied in connection with the manufacture,
				  transportation, storage and use of explosives.
"License" shall mean the authority granted by the
				  Commissioner of State Police, in writing to manufacture, keep, store, sell,
				  purchase, transport or use explosives. A license for the use of explosives
				  shall not be issued until the applicant exhibits suitable competency and
				  proficiency and shall submit to such examination and test as said Commissioner
				  may prescribe.
"Magazine" shall mean any building or structure, other than
				  an explosives manufacturing building, approved for storage of
				  explosives.
"Manufacturer" shall mean any person or persons, firm,
				  partnership, association or corporation engaged in the manufacture of
				  explosives.
"Motor Vehicle" shall mean any self-propelled vehicle, truck,
				  tractor, semitrailer, or truck-full trailer used for the transportation of
				  freight over highways.
"Natural Barricade" shall mean natural features of the
				  ground, such as hills, or timber of sufficient density that the surrounding
				  exposures which require protection cannot be seen from the magazine when the
				  trees are bare of leaves.
"Nitro-Carbo-Nitrate" shall mean any blasting agent which has
				  been classified as nitro-carbo-nitrate under the U.S. Department of
				  Transportation regulations, and which is packaged and shipped in compliance
				  with the regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
"No. 8 Test Blasting Cap" shall mean a blasting cap
				  containing two grams of a mixture of 80% mercury fulminate and 20% potassium
				  chlorate, or a cap of equivalent strength.
"Permit" shall mean the authority granted by the State or
				  Local Fire Marshal in writing to have, keep, store, sell, transport, or use
				  explosives. Such permits shall not be issued until the applicant exhibits an
				  annual state license.
"Person" shall mean any individual, firm, co-partnership,
				  corporation, company, association, joint stock association, and including any
				  trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
"Propellant-Actuated Power Devices" shall mean any tool or
				  special mechanized device or gas generator system which is actuated by
				  smokeless propellant or which releases and directs work through a smokeless
				  propellant charge.
"Public Conveyance" shall mean any railroad car, street car,
				  ferry, cab, bus, airplane or other vehicle which is carrying passengers for
				  hire.
"Pyrotechnics" shall mean any and all fireworks as defined in
				  Section
				  29-356
				  of the General Statutes.
"Railway" shall mean any steam, electric, diesel-electric or
				  other railroad or railway which carries passengers for hire on the particular
				  line or branch in the vicinity where explosives are stored or where explosive
				  manufacturing buildings are situated.
"Retail Dealer" shall mean any person or persons, firm,
				  partnership, association or corporation who sells explosives to users of
				  same.
"Small Arms Ammunition" shall mean any shotgun, rifle, pistol
				  or revolver cartridge, and cartridges for propellant-actuated power devices and
				  industrial guns. Military-type ammunition containing high explosives,
				  incendiary, tracer, spotting or pyrotechnic projectiles is excluded from this
				  definition.
"Small Arms Ammunition Primers" (Definition of). Small
				  percussion-sensitive explosive charges, encased in a cup, used to ignite
				  propellant powder.
"Smokeless Propellants" shall mean solid propellants,
				  commonly called smokeless powders in the trade, used in small arms ammunition,
				  cannon, rockets, propellant-actuated power devices, etc.
"Special Industrial Explosives Devices" shall mean any
				  explosive power-packs, which shall include but not be limited to explosive
				  rivets, explosive bolts, tools and other charges of explosives used in special
				  industrial operations including jet tapping steel furnaces and jet perforation
				  in oil well operations.
"Special Industrial Explosive Materials" shall mean shaped
				  materials and sheet forms and various other extrusion, pellets and packages of
				  high explosives which include dynamite, trinitrotoluene, pentaerythrite tetra
				  nitrate, cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine and other similar compounds used for
				  high-energy-rate forming expanding and shaping in metal fabrication, and for
				  dismemberment and quick reduction of scrap metal.
"Storage Farm" shall mean a tract of land properly segregated
				  and used for the storage of explosives in excess of 50,000 pounds in one or
				  more magazines.
"Water Gels or Slurry Explosives" comprise a wide variety of
				  materials used for blasting. They all contain substantial proportions of water
				  and high proportions of ammonium nitrate, some of which is in solution in the
				  water. Two broad classes of water gels are:
(a) those which are sensitized by a material
				classified as an explosive, such as TNT or smokeless powder, and
(b) those which contain no ingredient such as
				aluminum or with other fuels; Water Gels may be premixed at an explosives plant
				or mixed at the site immeditely before delivery into the borehole.