§ 555.212 Smoking and open flames. Storage safety and maintenance requirements.

Smoking, matches, open flames, and spark producing devices are not permitted:

  1. a.(a) In any magazine;

  2. b.(b) Within 50 feet of any outdoor magazine; or

  3. c.(c) Within any room containing an indoor magazine.

  1. a.(a) Outside a magazine. Licensees/permittees:

    1. 1.(1) Must maintain a 25-foot perimeter around all outdoor magazines that is free of rubbish, brush, and dry grass;

    2. 2.(2) May temporarily park vehicles that transport explosive materials near a magazine to load and unload explosive materials;

    3. 3.(3) Must unpack or repack all metal containers of explosive materials outside a magazine, at least 50 feet from the magazine; and

    4. 4.(4) May not allow smoking, open flames, spark- or flame-producing devices, and volatile materials (except fuel in temporarily parked vehicular magazines) within 50 feet of any outdoor magazine.

  2. b.(b) Inside a magazine. Licensees/permittees:

    1. 1.(1) Must keep magazines clean and clean any magazine contaminated by explosive materials according to the manufacturer's advice or instructions;

    2. 2.(2) Must destroy any deteriorating explosive materials in accordance with the manufacturer's advice or instructions;

    3. 3.(3) May not allow smoking, open flames, spark- or flame-producing devices, and volatile materials in any magazine or within any room containing an indoor magazine; and

    4. 4.(4) Must use only non-sparking tools and cleaning utensils within a magazine. They may use forklifts, pallet jacks, and other similar equipment within a magazine to safely move explosives.

  3. c.(c) Storing requirements. Licensees/permittees:

    1. 1.(1) Must store containers of explosive materials so that markings are visible unless the licensee/permittee maintains and keeps available for inspection an accurate, complete, and updated list of all the explosive materials on a pallet or in a stacked group;

    2. 2.(2) May not store detonators in the same magazine with other explosive materials, except under the following circumstances:

      1. i.(i) In a type 4 magazine, licensees/permittees may store detonators that will not mass-detonate with electric squibs, safety fuses, shock tubes, igniters, and igniter cords; and

      2. ii.(ii) In a type 1 or type 2 magazine, licensees/permittees may store detonators with delay devices and any of the items listed in paragraph (c)(2)(i) of this section; and

    3. 3.(3) May not store in magazines forklifts, pallet jacks, or other similar equipment used to move explosives.