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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 “Shot Fireman”

Compile and keep gun and explosives records in compliance with local and federal laws.
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.
Lay primacord between rows of charged blast holes, and tie cord into main lines to form blast patterns.
Assemble and position equipment, explosives, and blasting caps in holes at specified depths, or load perforating guns or torpedoes with explosives.
Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
Maintain inventory levels, ordering new supplies as necessary.
Verify detonation of charges by observing control panels, or by listening for the sounds of blasts.
Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites.
Mark patterns, locations, and depths of charge holes for drilling, and issue drilling instructions.
Set up and operate equipment such as hoists, jackhammers, or drills, in order to bore charge holes.
Connect gun chambers to electric detonating devices, and operate controls at panelboards, in order to detonate charges in guns or to ignite chemical charges.
Repair and service blasting, shooting, and automotive equipment, and electrical wiring and instruments, using hand tools.
Insert waterproof sealers, bullets, and/or powder charges into guns, and screw gun ports back into place.
Repair electrical instruments, using electricians' hand tools.
Clean, gauge, and lubricate gun ports.
Observe odometers, weight indicators, and instrument panels in trucks in order to position guns at predetermined points in wells.
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 short-wave radio or field telephone equipment to transmit and receive blast information.
Lower perforating guns into wells, using hoists; then use measuring devices and instrument panels to position guns in correct positions for taking samples.
Cut specified lengths of primacord and attach primers to cord ends.
Move and store inventories of explosives, loaded perforating guns, and other materials, according to established safety procedures.
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.
Insert powder charges into chambers of sidewall sample-taking cylinders, and assemble cylinders, using special wrenches.
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.
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.
Measure depths of drilled blast holes, using weighted tape measures.
Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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