Title: OSHA Proposes Treating Ammunition and Components as Explosives
Source: OSHA
URL Source:
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main? main=DocumentDetail&d=OSHA-2007-0032-0001
Published: Jul 8, 2007
Author: OSHA
Post Date: 2007-07-08 13:46:22 by axes_of_weezles
3 Comments
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/comp...-2007-0032-0001 XIII. Amendments to Standards
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, OSHA proposes to amend Part 1910 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations as follows:
PART 1910—[AMENDED]
Sec. 1910.109 Explosives.
(a) Scope. (1) This section applies to the manufacture, storage, sale, transportation, handling, and use of explosives, including blasting agents and pyrotechnics.
Explosive means any device, or liquid or solid chemical compound or mixture, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion. (i) The term ``explosive’’ includes all material included as a Class 1 explosive by DOT in accordance with 49 CFR chapter I. The term includes, but is not limited to, dynamite, black powder, pellet powders, detonators, blasting agents, initiating explosives, blasting caps, safety fuse, fuse lighters, fuse igniters, squibs, cordeau detonant fuse, instantaneous fuse, igniter cord, igniters, pyrotechnics, special industrial explosive materials, small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, smokeless propellant
(Ammo and Smokeless powder are now upgraded in hazard designation to the same as real explosives like det’ chord and dynamite)
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=193347 
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