How do they match: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

  • Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
  • Connect gun chambers to electric detonating devices, and operate controls at panelboards, in order to detonate charges in guns or to ignite chemical charges.
  • 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.
  • Set up and operate equipment such as hoists, jackhammers, and drills, in order to bore charge holes.
  • Tie specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns in order to time sequences of explosions.

  • Order construction or extraction materials or equipment.