- Author
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- Title
- Explosives.
- Coporate
- Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
- Report
- Annual Review, 1995, 5 p.
- Keywords
- explosives | legislation
- Identifiers
- legislation and government programs; production; consumption; blasting agents; salient statistics of industrial explosives and blasting agents sold for consumption in the United States; industrial explosives and blasting agents sold for consumption in the United States, by class and use; industrial explosives and blasting agents sold for consumption in the United States, by state and class
- Abstract
- Worldwide attention was focused on explosives in 1995 as a result of the April 19 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 people. As a result of the bombing, proposals were made by U.S. lawmakers to include identifying taggants in explosives and to include additives to reduce or eliminate the explosive potential of ammonium nitrate, and lawsuits were filed against explosives manufacturers by victims of the bombing. Total U.S. explosives production of 2.28 million metric tons declined slightly in 1995, after significant growth in 1994. Coal mining was the principal application for explosives, and explosives sales were recorded in all 50 States. U.S. demand for explosives is exptected to decline as coal production shifts from Eastern and Midwestern States to the Westersn