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Job Description

Place and detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials. May perform specialized handling, storage, and accounting procedures. Includes seismograph shooters.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-5031.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 54,580.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 26.00
Currently, there are 6,310 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters”.

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Tasks for “Ordnance Keeper”

Set up and operate equipment such as hoists, jackhammers, or drills, in order to bore charge holes.
Light fuses, drop detonating devices into wells or boreholes, or activate firing devices with plungers, dials, or buttons, in order to set off single or multiple blasts.
Maintain inventory levels, ordering new supplies as necessary.
Clean, gauge, and lubricate gun ports.
Assemble and position equipment, explosives, and blasting caps in holes at specified depths, or load perforating guns or torpedoes with explosives.
Mark patterns, locations, and depths of charge holes for drilling, and issue drilling instructions.
Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
Signal hoist operators to lower torpedoes or sample-taking guns into wells and to raise equipment for sampling from blast holes after detonation.
Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
Verify detonation of charges by observing control panels, or by listening for the sounds of blasts.
Place safety cones around blast areas to alert other workers of danger zones, and signal workers as necessary to ensure that they clear blast sites prior to explosions.
Set up and operate short-wave radio or field telephone equipment to transmit and receive blast information.
Insert waterproof sealers, bullets, and/or powder charges into guns, and screw gun ports back into place.
Measure depths of drilled blast holes, using weighted tape measures.
Tie specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns in order to time sequences of explosions.
Repair electrical instruments, using electricians' hand tools.
Cut specified lengths of primacord and attach primers to cord ends.
Repair and service blasting, shooting, and automotive equipment, and electrical wiring and instruments, using hand tools.
Lay primacord between rows of charged blast holes, and tie cord into main lines to form blast patterns.
Insert powder charges into chambers of sidewall sample-taking cylinders, and assemble cylinders, using special wrenches.
Place explosive charges in holes or other spots; then detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials.
Connect gun chambers to electric detonating devices, and operate controls at panelboards, in order to detonate charges in guns or to ignite chemical charges.
Lower perforating guns into wells, using hoists; then use measuring devices and instrument panels to position guns in correct positions for taking samples.
Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites.
Compile and keep gun and explosives records in compliance with local and federal laws.
Move and store inventories of explosives, loaded perforating guns, and other materials, according to established safety procedures.
Obtain samples of earth from sidewalls of well boreholes, using electrically exploding devices.
Observe odometers, weight indicators, and instrument panels in trucks in order to position guns at predetermined points in wells.
Insert, pack, and pour explosives, such as dynamite, ammonium nitrate, black powder, or slurries into blast holes; then shovel drill cuttings, admit water into boreholes, and tamp material to compact charges.

Related Technology & Tools

Padded gloves
Plumb bobs
Protective respirators
Safety goggles
Overhead cranes
Hand chisels
Flashing warning lights
Insulated pliers
Tamping rods
Depth measurement gauges
Avalaunchers
Grappling hooks
Resistance testers
Surveyors leveling rods
Shock tube detonators
Tongue and groove pliers
Protective safety glasses
Hand shears
Phillips head screwdrivers
Coated gloves
Pneumatic drilling equipment
Blast hole tubing
Personal computers
Safety cones
Bore hole thermometers
Digital ohmmeters
Blasting machines
Phase rotation meters
Wire cutting tools
Dewatering pumps
Electrical circuit testers
Wheeled wire dispensers
Longnose pliers
Hacksaws
Mobile radios
End cutting pliers
Protective ear plugs
Fixed blade knives
Extension ladders
Portable cranes
Right angle prisms
Jackhammers
Digital calculators
Equipment dollies
Remote blasting systems
Warning sirens
Long period delay detonators
Non-contact voltage testers
Stakebed trucks
Hole savers
Electricians' knives
Plastic plugs
Explosives time delay fuses
Safety harnesses
Day boxes
Crescent wrenches
Short period delay detonators
Non-electric delay detonators
Fuse cutters
Digital micrometers
Remote firing devices
Transport trucks
Surface connector blocks
Safety fuses
Seismic activity recorders
Tractor-trailer trucks
Folding knives
Precision tweezers
Temperature data loggers
Perforating casing guns
Conduit bending tools
Detonating cords
Ammonium nitrate fuel oil ANFO loaders
Fuse testers
Digital ammeters
Perforating capsule guns
Pallet jacks
Galvanometers
Millivoltmeters
Hoisting equipment
Explosives funnels
Electronic shock tube initiators
Harpoon retrievers
Test lamps
Balance scales
Weighted tape measures
Wire strippers
Laptop computers
Hydraulic pressure gauges
Hard hats
Discharge hoses
Blasthole drills
Explosives handling robots
Loading poles
Instantaneous electrical detonators
Portable air compressors
Portable signal generators
Torpedo levels
Laser rangefinders
Clinometers
Wood wedges
Rubber mallets
Forklifts
Digital voltmeters
Stake flags
Meggers
Tie-down equipment
Wire loop pullers
Lowering hooks
Explosive blasting caps
Ring gauges
Digital wattmeters
Wire cleaning brushes
Vernier calipers
Spring scales
Short-wave radios
Digital multimeters
Blasting cap crimpers

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