---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 56.6401"
title: "30"
number: "56.6401"
heading: "Shunting."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/56.6401"
---

# §56.6401. Shunting.


Except during testing—

- (a) Electric detonators shall be kept shunted until connected to the blasting line or wired into a blasting round;
- (b) Wired rounds shall be kept shunted until connected to the blasting line; and
- (c) Blasting lines shall be kept shunted until immediately before blasting.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 61 FR 36795, July 12, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811.

### Source

Source: 50 FR 4054, Jan. 29, 1985, unless otherwise noted.