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.

  • 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.

  • Drill holes in earth or rock.