Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart D - Environmental Health and Safety › Article IV - Occupational Health and Safety › Chapter 211 - STORAGE, HANDLING AND USE OF EXPLOSIVES › Subchapter E - TRANSPORTATION OF EXPLOSIVES › Section 211.141 - General requirements

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The blasting activity permittee shall:
(1) Immediately unload a vehicle carrying
						explosives upon reaching a magazine location. The unloaded vehicle shall be
						removed from the site. The only exception to this requirement is if the vehicle
						is a licensed magazine under Subchapter B (relating to storage and
						classification of explosives).
(2)
						Load or unload explosives from a vehicle only after the engine is turned off,
						unless power is needed for the loading or unloading operation. The permittee
						shall take all precautions necessary, such as blocking the wheels, to prevent
						the movement of the vehicle while it is being loaded or unloaded.
(3) Load explosives only into a vehicle that
						is marked in accordance with the Department of Transportation standards for
						placarding vehicles transporting explosives.
(4) Prohibit smoking within 100 feet of a
						vehicle used for transporting explosives. "NO SMOKING" signs shall be posted
						when a vehicle containing explosives is parked at a blast site or
						magazine.
(5) Load no more than
						2,000 pounds (908 kilograms) of explosives into an open body vehicle for
						transporting. The ends and sides must be high enough to prevent explosives from
						falling off, and the load must be covered with a fire-resistant tarpaulin,
						unless the explosives are transported in a magazine securely attached to the
						vehicle.
(6) Load explosives into a
						closed body vehicle if the load is more than 2,000 pounds (908 kilograms) of
						explosives.
(7) Only load
						explosives into a vehicle with a bed made of wood or other nonsparking
						material.
(8) Load explosives into
						a vehicle which is also transporting metal, metal tools, blasting machines or
						other articles or materials likely to damage the explosives, only if these
						items are separated from the explosives by substantial nonsparking bulkheads
						constructed to prevent damage to the explosives.
(9) Load detonators and other explosives into
						the same vehicle only if the detonators are in containers that conform to the
						current version of the Institute of Makers of Explosives' Safety Library
						Publication # 22 available from the Institute of Makers of Explosives, 1120
						Nineteenth Street, N. W., Suite 310, Washington, DC 20036-3605.
(10) Not load explosives into the same
						vehicle with materials such as matches, firearms, electric storage batteries,
						corrosive compounds, flammable substances, acids, oxidizing agents and ammonium
						nitrate not in the original containers.
(11) Only load explosives into vehicles
						equipped with a fire extinguisher having a National Board of Underwriters
						Laboratories rating of 10 B:C or more. The fire extinguisher must be easily
						accessible and ready for immediate use.
(12) Load explosives into a vehicle so that
						explosives containers are not exposed to sparks or hot gases from the exhaust
						tailpipe. Exhaust systems that discharge upwards are recommended to avoid
						possible exposure of sparks or hot gases to explosives.
(13) Only load explosives into on-road
						vehicles that have passed the State safety inspection or certification or an
						FMCSA inspection.
(14) Only load
						explosives into off-road vehicles that are properly equipped to carry
						explosives.
(15) Remove explosives
						prior to conducting maintenance or repair work on vehicles containing
						explosives or detonators.
The provisions of this §
														211.141 amended under sections
							 1917-A and 1920-A of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P.S.
							 §§
															510-17 and
							 510-20); section
							 4.2 of the Surface Mining
							 Conservation and Reclamation Act (52 P.S. §
															1396.4b); section 11(e) of the Noncoal
							 Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act (52 P.S. §
															3311(e)); sections 7 and 11
							 of the act of July 1, 1937 (P.L. 2681, No. 537) (73 P.S. §§
															157 and
							 161); sections 3 and 4 of the
							 act of July 10, 1957 (P.L. 685, No. 362) (73 P.S. §§
															166 and
							 167); Reorganization Plan No.
							 8 of 1981 (71 P.S. §
															751-35);
							 section 2(f) of the act of May 18, 1937 (P.L. 654, No. 174) (43 P.S. §
															25-2(f)); and Reorganization
							 Plan No. 2 of 1975 (71 P.S. §
															751-22).