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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 “Shooter”

Connect gun chambers to electric detonating devices, and operate controls at panelboards, in order to detonate charges in guns or to ignite chemical charges.
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.
Set up and operate short-wave radio or field telephone equipment to transmit and receive blast information.
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.
Cut specified lengths of primacord and attach primers to cord ends.
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.
Repair and service blasting, shooting, and automotive equipment, and electrical wiring and instruments, using hand tools.
Clean, gauge, and lubricate gun ports.
Insert waterproof sealers, bullets, and/or powder charges into guns, and screw gun ports back into place.
Lower perforating guns into wells, using hoists; then use measuring devices and instrument panels to position guns in correct positions for taking samples.
Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
Maintain inventory levels, ordering new supplies as necessary.
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.
Repair electrical instruments, using electricians' hand tools.
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.
Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites.
Obtain samples of earth from sidewalls of well boreholes, using electrically exploding devices.
Tie specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns in order to time sequences of explosions.
Observe odometers, weight indicators, and instrument panels in trucks in order to position guns at predetermined points in wells.
Verify detonation of charges by observing control panels, or by listening for the sounds of blasts.
Measure depths of drilled blast holes, using weighted tape measures.
Mark patterns, locations, and depths of charge holes for drilling, and issue drilling instructions.
Assemble and position equipment, explosives, and blasting caps in holes at specified depths, or load perforating guns or torpedoes with explosives.
Signal hoist operators to lower torpedoes or sample-taking guns into wells and to raise equipment for sampling from blast holes after detonation.
Set up and operate equipment such as hoists, jackhammers, or drills, in order to bore charge holes.
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.

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