For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BLASTING AGENT. 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 cap when unconfined.
NO. 8 TEST BLASTING CAP. One containing 2 grams of a mixture of 80% mercury fulminate and 20% potassium chlorate, or a cap of equivalent strength.
NITRO-CARBO-NITRATE. Applies to any blasting agent which has been classified as nitro-carbo-nitrate under the Department of Transportation Regulations, and which is packaged and shipped in compliance with the regulations of the Department of Transportation.
EXPLOSIVE or EXPLOSIVES. Any chemical compound, mixture or device, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion, i.e., with substantially instantaneous release of gas and heat, unless the compound, mixture or device is otherwise specifically classified by the DOT (formerly ICC). The term EXPLOSIVES include all material which is classified as Class A, Class B and Class C explosives by the DOT (formerly ICC), and includes, but is not limited to, dynamite, black powder, pellet powders, initiating explosives, blasting caps, electric blasting caps, safety fuse, fuse
lighters, fuse igniters, squibs, cordeau detonant fuse, instantaneous fuse, igniter cord, igniters, small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, smokeless propellant, cartridges for propellant actuated power devices and cartridges for industrial guns and some special fire works. (
COMMERCIAL EXPLOSIVES are those explosives which are intended to be used in commercial or industrial operations).
(1) Classification of
EXPLOSIVES is described by the Department of Transportation, DOT (formerly Interstate Commerce Commission, ICC) as follows.
CLASS A EXPLOSIVES. Possessing, detonating or otherwise maximum hazard; such as dynamite, nitroglycerin, picric acid, lead azide, fulminate of mercury, black powder, blasting caps and detonating primers.
CLASS B EXPLOSIVES. Possessing flammable hazard, such as propellant explosives (including some smokeless propellants), 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.
FORBIDDEN OR NOT ACCEPTABLE EXPLOSIVES. 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 of the DOT (ICC).
(2) Certain chemicals and certain fuel materials may have explosive characteristics which are not specifically classified by the DOT (formerly ICC) and are not readily classified for coverage in the Code. Authoritative information should be obtained for those unclassified materials and action commensurate with their hazards, location, isolation and safeguards should be taken.
EXPLOSIVE-ACTUATED POWER DEVICES. Any tool or special mechanized device that is actuated by explosives, but not to including propellant-actuated power devices. Examples of EXPLOSIVE-ACTUATED POWER DEVICES are jet tappers and jet perforators.
HIGHWAY. Any public street, public alley or public road.
INHABITED BUILDINGS.
(1) A building or structure regularly used in whole or in part as a place of human habitation.
(2) 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.
MAGAZINE. Any building or structure, other than an explosives manufacturing building, approved for the storage of explosives.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Any self-propelled vehicle, truck, tractor, semi-trailer, used for the transportation of freight over public highways.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company, association and including any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
PROPELLANT-ACTUATED POWER DEVICES. Any tool or special mechanized device or gas generator system which is actuated by a smokeless propellant or which releases and directs work through a smokeless propellant charge.
PUBLIC CONVEYANCE. Any railroad car, street car, ferry, cab, bus, airplane or other vehicle which is carrying passengers for hire.
RAILWAY. 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 explosives manufacturing buildings are situated.
SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION. Any shotgun, rifle, pistol or revolver cartridge for propellant-actuated power devices and industrial guns. Military-type ammunition containing explosive bursting charges, spotting or pyrotechnic projectiles is excluded from this definition.
SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION PRIMERS. Small percussion-sensitive explosive charges, encased in a cup, used to ignite propellant powder.
SMOKELESS PROPELLANTS. Commonly called smokeless powders in the trade, used in small arms ammunition, cannon, rockets, propellant-actuated power devices and the like.
SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSIVE DEVICES. Explosive-actuated power devices and propellant-actuated power devices.
SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSIVES MATERIALS. Shaped materials and sheet forms and various other extrusions, pellets and packages of high explosives, which include dynamite, TNT, PETN, RDX, 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.
(Prior Code, § 10.402)