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O*NET detailed work activityPrepare explosives for detonation
Stays humanHands-on work
2 jobs8 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Prepare industrial materials for processing or use, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- 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.
- Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
- Tie specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns in order to time sequences of explosions.
- Lay primacord between rows of charged blast holes, and tie cord into main lines to form blast patterns.
- Lower and explode charges in boreholes to start flow of oil from wells.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- 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.
- Assemble and position equipment, explosives, and blasting caps in holes at specified depths, or load perforating guns or torpedoes with explosives.
- Cut specified lengths of primacord and attach primers to cord ends.