Providing for Safe Loading and Discharge of Explosives Transported by Vessel: Hearings...82-21952 - 117 pages |
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Admiral O'NEILL Alaska ALLEN amend section 4472 American Table authority BARTLETT BELT bill blasting caps Board of Harbor cargo carrier Chairman Coast Guard regulations commercial explosives Committee on Merchant Congress containing explosives cost dangerous articles DAVIS Department Director discharging of explosives dynamite engineer facilities February 15 feet fire foreign commerce Government Governor of Hawaii HAND handling of explosives Harbor Commissioners HART Hawaiian hazardous Honolulu Harbor industrial safety Interstate Commerce Commission interstate or foreign islands issued Kauai Labor and Industrial legislation lethal munitions loading or unloading magazine Marine and Fisheries Matson Merchant Marine Molokai naval mines Navy O'TOOLE Oahu operations Oren E packages permit pier placarded port pounds powder present recommendations SCRUTON ship shipments of explosives sives South Amboy storage subcommittee Table of Distances tank cars Territory of Hawaii tion tons transportation of explosives truck United States Coast unloading explosives unloading of explosives vehicle WEICHEL
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Page 111 - A broken box of high explosives that cannot be recoopered should be reinforced by stout wrapping paper and twine, placed in another strong box and surrounded by dry, fine sawdust or dry and clean cotton waste or elastic wads made from dry newspapers.
Page 47 - The Bureau of the Budget has advised that it has no objection to the submission of this report to your committee. Sincerely yours, LEWIS B.
Page 108 - Every package containing explosives or other dangerous articles when presented to a common carrier for shipment shall have plainly marked on the outside thereof the contents thereof; and it shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by land or water...
Page 108 - ... any explosive, or other dangerous article, -under any false or deceptive marking, description, invoice, shipping order, or other declaration, or without informing the agent of such carrier of the true character thereof, at or before the time such delivery or carriage is made.
Page 108 - Commission shall formulate regulations for the safe transportation of explosives, which shall be binding upon all common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce which transport explosives by land. Said commission, of its own motion, or upon application made by any interested party, may make changes or modifications in such regulations, made desirable by new information or altered conditions.
Page 108 - The Interstate Commerce Commission shall formulate regulations for the safe transportation within the limits of the jurisdiction of tne United States of explosives and other dangerous articles...
Page 108 - ... handling while in transit, and the precautions necessary to determine whether the material when offered is in proper condition to transport. Such regulations, as well as all changes or modifications thereof, shall...
Page 19 - explosive" and "explosives" when used herein shall mean gunpowders, powders used for blasting, all forms of high explosives, blasting materials, fuses, detonators, and other detonating agents, smokeless powders, and any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that contains any oxidizing and' combustible units, or other ingredients, in such proportions, quantities or packing that ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonation of...
Page 108 - Such regulations shall be in accord with the best-known practicable means for securing safety in transit, covering the packing, marking, loading, handling while in transit, and the precautions necessary to determine whether the material when offered is in proper condition to transport.
Page 109 - Dangerous," or known to contain flammable liquids, must not be entered with a lighted open-flame lantern, torch, or other fire, until both car doors have been opened and sufficient time allowed for ventilation and escape of any vapors. The presence of these vapors will generally be indicated by characteristic odors. When leakage is continuous, ventilation will not remove the danger. The leaking package should be located and removed, using electric lights or waiting for daylight.