Section 5.82. Applicability

(a) Places covered. This subchapter governs the operation of all buildings, factories, establishments or other places where people are employed, wherein explosives are manufactured, used, handled, stored or in which they are produced as the result of manufacturing processes.

(b) Materials covered. Materials classed as explosives by the Board include black powder of all varieties, dry guncotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, chlorates, fulminates, all sensitized ammonium nitrate compositions, and any other of their compounds or mixtures or any other substances which are subject to explosion by the aid of shock, friction, spark or heat. Smokeless powder, wet guncotton and wet nitrostarch are also included in this classification for the purposes of this subchapter.