Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - STATE PATROL › Title 272 - NEBRASKA STATE PATROL › Chapter 7 - HANDLING OF EXPLOSIVES › Section 272-7-001 - Observance of Rules

Current through June 17, 2024
Every employee and every person having supervision over
				  employees where explosives are handled or used shall observe all rules which
				  immediately concern or affect his or her conduct.
001.01 Locking Explosive Magazines
All magazines and all enclosures used for storage of
				  explosives shall be kept locked by the owner or user thereof at all times
				  except when opened by an authorized person while placing explosives therein or
				  removing explosives therefrom, or for the inspection thereof.
001.02 Access to Explosives
No person unless duly authorized by the owner of the
				  explosives shall have access to or enter magazines or explosives storage
				  enclosures. Detonators or other explosives when removed from magazines shall
				  not be left unguarded where children or other unauthorized persons may have
				  access to them.
001.03
				Smoking and Open Lights
No person shall smoke or carry open lights or other flame or
				  spark-producing devices in or around any explosive magazine, or around any
				  explosives.
Exception: Suitable devices for lighting safety fuse are
				  exempt from this requirement.
001.04 Marking Explosives
No person shall own, possess, store, sell or use, or
				  authorize or permit the use of explosives, unless the original package or
				  container is clearly marked so as to designate the class and type, the name and
				  address of the manufacturer and the date of manufacture of said explosive. This
				  requirement shall not apply to a purchaser of a broken lot on whose bill of
				  sale such information shall appear. Every seller shall provide such bill of
				  sale to every said purchaser. The date of manufacture may be in code, provided
				  that the key to such code shall be furnished to the Nebraska State Patrol on
				  request. All cases containing explosives for underground use shall be clearly
				  marked with the fume classification of its contents. No explosives, other than
				  those in fume classes 1. 2, or 3, shall be used in confined
				  spaces.
001.05 Return of
				Explosives to Magazine
Every person using explosives and every employer whose
				  employees are required to use explosives in the performance of their duties
				  shall be responsible for the return of all unused explosives or ingredients
				  thereof to the magazine, and shall prevent any explosives or ingredients
				  thereof from being taken to any place not necessary to their
				  use.
001.06 Opening Packages
				or Containers of Explosives
No person shall open nailed or sealed wooden or metal
				  packages or containers of explosives within 50 feet ( 15.2 m ) of any magazine.
				  In opening wooden containers of explosives only non-sparking wedges and either
				  wooden, fiber or rubber mallets shall be used. Only approved tools shall be
				  used for opening metal containers.
001.07 Blasting Operations
Blasting operations can be carried on only under the direct
				  supervision of a person or persons in possession of valid user's permits issued
				  by the Nebraska State Patrol.
001.08 Charging
Tamping shall be done with wooden or approved plastic poles.
				  Approved metal connectors shall be used for jointed poles. Violent tamping
				  shall be avoided. The primer shall never be tamped.
001.09 Fuse Requirements
Any fuse which varies more than 10 percent from an average
				  speed, when burned unconfined in the open at sea level in three foot lengths,
				  shall not be used. Any fuse that burns faster than 90 seconds per three foot
				  length with more than an allowable variation of 10 percent, when burned
				  unconfined in the open at sea level shall not be used. Any fuse length less
				  than 36 inches shall not be used.
001.10 Notice of Blast
The blaster shall give timely notice of every blast to every
				  person in danger thereof, and shall not explode any blast until all persons
				  have been removed to a safe location.
001.11 The electric current used to fire a
				blast shall not exceed the current recommended by the manufacturer of the
				electric detonators being used and shall be made by a manufacturer approved
				blasting/initiating machine.
001.12
				Blasting Operations During Electrical Storms
All blasting operations and any handling of explosives shall
				  be stopped immediately upon the approach of an electrical storm, and all
				  persons shall immediately retire to a place of safety.
001.13 Destruction of Explosives
001.13A Any unserviceable or hazardous
				explosives or blasting agents which cannot be salvaged, or are unfit for their
				intended purpose, shall be destroyed by a qualified person in accordance with
				the manufacturer's instructions.
001.13B Explosives Explosives which are
				deviated from normal color or condition (texture, size, etc.) shall be
				considered deteriorated until their exact condition is determined by expert
				opinion. A complete report of the destruction of explosives shall be made
				listing the date of destruction, reason, amount and type of explosives
				destroyed, manner of destruction, and name of person destroying the explosives.
				This report shall be kept with the required explosive inventory records.
				(Chapter 8, para 001.02 )
001.13C
				Explosives shall never be buried or covered by any materials as a means of
				disposal.
001.13D Frozen explosives
				shall not be placed or used in drill holes. No attempt shall be made to thaw
				frozen explosives, but rather the manufacturer shall be consulted.
001.13E No explosive shall be
				abandoned.
001.13F Destroying
				Explosives. Explosives which have deteriorated or have been damaged so as to be
				unfit for use shall be destroyed by a qualified person experienced in this work
				and designated by the owner of the explosives or by the Nebraska State Patrol.
				This provision shall not prohibit reprocessing of explosives by the
				manufacturer thereof. Additionally, the Nebraska Department of Environmental
				Quality (DEQ), Title 128, Rules and Regulations Governing Hazardous Waste
				Management in Nebraska, must be followed. For clarification on Title 128,
				contact the Lincoln, Nebraska office of the DEQ.