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

  • 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.

  • Move and store inventories of explosives, loaded perforating guns, and other materials, according to established safety procedures.
  • Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites.
  • Obtain samples of earth from sidewalls of well boreholes, using electrically exploding devices.
  • Operate machines to flush earth cuttings or to blow dust from holes.
  • 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.
  • Signal crane operators to move equipment.

  • Move materials, equipment, or supplies.
  • Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment.
  • Drill holes in earth or rock.
  • Maintain extraction or excavation equipment.
  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.