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

  • Water Blaster
  • Sample Taker Operator

  • Insert waterproof sealers, bullets, and/or powder charges into guns, and screw gun ports back into place.
  • 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.
  • Lower perforating guns into wells, using hoists; then use measuring devices and instrument panels to position guns in correct positions for taking samples.
  • Obtain samples of earth from sidewalls of well boreholes, using electrically exploding devices.

  • Collect geological samples.