Bureau of Explosives

Guidebook for Initial Response to Haspirdous Materials Incidents, DOT P 5800.4, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C., 1987. Emergeny Handling of Haspirdous Materials in Suface Transportation, Bureau of Explosives, Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C., 1981. 

Concentrations over 8 wt % are classified as corrosive Hquids by the Department of Transportation (DOT). The Bureau of Explosives regulation (132) classifies all solutions containing 20 wt % and greater as oxidizers and corrosives. The product containers must have identifying labels (dmms) or placards (tank cars, tank trailers) indicating that the contents are an oxidizer and corrosive material, UN 2014 or UN 2015. Bills of lading must also be so identified. Tank cars and tank trailers are constmcted from high purity aluminum or 300 series stainless steel. 

Specifications fiorKed TailroadEusees orEedELighwajEusees Bureau of Explosives, Washington, D.C., revised May 1, 1959. 

Bureau of Explosives Tariff No. BOE-6000-B, Bureau of Explosives, Association of American Railroads, Washiagton, D.C. 

Pyrodex is classified as a Class B explosive by the Bureau of Explosives of the Association of American Railroads (Ref 5)... 

Condemned or leaking Dynamite unless it was repacked by a competent person in the presence of, or with the written consent of, an inspector, or with the written authority of the Chief Inspector of the Bureau of Explosives... 

Fireworks condemned by the Bureau of Explosives, except when properly repacked as samples for lab examinations... 

New expls (except samples for lab err-ami nation) until approved for transportation by the Bureau of Explosives... 

Regulations for Transportation of Explosives and Other Dangerous Articles by Land and Water in Rail Freight Service and by Motor Vehicle (Highway) and Water, Part 73.88, (f) Propellant Explosives, Class B, Note 2, Bureau of Explosives, Association of American Railroads, New York, N. Y. (August 5, 1966). 

Regulations for transportation of explosives and of other dangerous materials were prescribed for US railroads by the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission), under the authority of the federal law, Act of Congress, approved June 25, 1948. The ICC may utilize the services of The Bureau of Explosives , organized by the American Railway Association in. 1906 to secure safery in the transportation of expls... 

Regulations for transportation of dangerous articles by water are prescribed by the US Coast Guard, whereas rulings as to what products, and in what quantities, may be transported by air, are made by the US Civil Aeronautics Board. Packaging and labeling of air shipments are subject to the regulations of the ICC, as interpreted by the Bureau of Explosives... 

Bureau of Explosives of the Amer Assoc Railroads and the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Detailed accounts of these investigations are given in a number of reports (Refs 54, 55, 56, 59, 62, 66). It has been accepted generally that the fire on... 

Dr Martin proposed a theory -to explain the expln and conducted experiments which proved that rapid heating of butyl peroxyacetate to a critical temp will cause the compd to detonate violently. According to Martin, a report from the Bureau of Explosives, Dept of Commerce, indicated in their application of heat tests that butyl peroxyacetate failed to explode. This was explained on the basis of too low a rate of applying heat. The Bureau did detonate a rnixt of the coral liq and a... 

Bureau of Explosives 44 Bureau of Mines 364 burning chamber - combustion chamber 60... 

Bureau of Explosives BofE shipped by rail in the United States. Bureau standards are generally accepted by all railroads and are the basis for R. M. Graziano s Tariff Hazardous Materials Regulations of the Department of Transportation hy Air, Rail, Highway, and Water, latest edition. 

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