Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates machine to pack dynamite into paper cartridge shells to form sticks: Installs and adjusts tamping sticks and nipple plates in packing machine according to diameter and length of cartridges to be packed, using nonsparking handtools.

• 2) Starts machine, directs DYNAMITE-PACKING-MACHINE FEEDER to fill powder hopper with dynamite, and fills shuttle board with paper cartridge shells.

• 3) Secures shuttle board in filling position on machine, and scoops dynamite from hopper into box above tamping sticks.

• 4) Lifts shuttle board of filled cartridges from machine and tends crimping press to finish ends, or passes filled cartridges to DYNAMITE-CARTRIDGE CRIMPER.