Note: These are NOT OSHA regulations. However, they do provide guidance from their originating organizations related to worker protection.

• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Inspects sites of any accident or fire where there is reason to believe that explosive materials were involved. Other Federal agencies, or State or local agencies, might also investigate such incidents, depending on the circumstances.
  • ATF Issues Tips for a Safe Fourth of July Celebration. (2000, June 19). Lists safety precautions for legal fireworks use, as well as information regarding illegal fireworks.
  • Illegal Explosive Devices. Also available as a 95 KB PDF, 1 page. Provides dimensions and risk factors of M-80s, Silver Salutes, and quarter sticks.
• 27 CFR 55, Commerce in explosives
  • Questions and Answers - 18 USC 40 and 27 CFR Part 55. 1.44 MB PDF, 15 pages. ATF has prepared a selection of those Questions that it receives most often about explosives. A table of contents reflects the broad categories into which the questions have been grouped, and a Subject Index has been included.

Note: These are NOT OSHA regulations. However, they do provide guidance from their originating organizations related to worker protection.

• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Sets national safety standards for fireworks.
  • Fireworks Safety. Includes a Fireworks Safety Tips Handout, the Annual Fireworks Report, fact sheets, and press releases.
  • CPSC Holds Fireworks Safety Press Conference on Mall in Washington.
    • Short (less than 1 minute) video clip series: "Baby Dolls with Sparklers", "Mannequin with M-80 in Hand", and "Watermelon with M-1000", "Mannequin in House with M-1000" showing the destructive power of fireworks.
    • Short (less than 1 minute) video clip showing illegal fireworks.
• Summary of Fireworks Regulations. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), (2001, January), 84 KB PDF, 3 pages. Familiarizes the public with CPSC's fireworks regulations. The CPSC enforces its fireworks regulations under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA), 15 U.S.C. Section 1261. It is a violation of Federal law to import, distribute or sell fireworks that violate CPSC regulations.
  • 16 CFR 1500, Hazardous substances and articles; administration and enforcement regulations
  • 16 CFR 1507, Fireworks devices
    • 1507.1, Scope 
    • 1507.2, Prohibited chemicals
    • 1507.3, Fuses
    • 1507.4, Bases 
    • 1507.5, Pyrotechnic leakage
    • 1507.6, Burnout and blowout 
    • 1507.7, Handles and spikes
    • 1507.8, Wheel devices
    • 1507.9, Toy smoke devices and flitter devices
    • 1507.10, Rockets with sticks
    • 1507.11, Party poppers
    • 1507.12, Multiple-tube fireworks devices

• Example Enforcement Actions
   
  • Indiana Businessman Found Guilty of Illegally Selling Professional Display Fireworks To Consumers. (2002, June). Announces that an Indiana businessman faces up to 35 years in federal prison and a $1,000,000 fine after an Indiana jury found him guilty of selling display fireworks to consumers.
  • Consumer Product Safety Commission Fines Red Rock and Blackjack Companies. (2000, June), 128 KB PDF, 3 pages. Red Rock and Blackjack agreed to pay a civil penalty of $90,000.00 in a settlement concerning allegations the companies sold fireworks that failed to comply with the Commission’s Fireworks Regulations. 
  • Consumer Product Safety Commission Fines Bethany Sales Company. (1994, December). Bethany introduced or caused the introduction into interstate commerce eight different kinds of non-complying fireworks.
  • Consumer Product Commission Fines Neptune Fireworks Company. (1995, April). On ten occasions Neptune Fireworks Company caused the introduction or into interstate commerce 23 different kinds of non-complying fireworks.

Note: These are NOT OSHA regulations. However, they do provide guidance from their originating organizations related to worker protection.

• Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Office of Hazardous Material Safety. Provides links to the the most frequently requested documents by shippers, carriers, Federal and State agencies, as well as members of the general public.
  • Non-Military Explosives. Provides a llist of fireworks, their classifications and manufacturers.
• 49 CFR Subtitle B, Other regulations relating to transportation
  • 106, Rulemaking procedures
  • 107, Hazardous materials program procedures
  • 110, Hazardous materials public sector training and planning grants
  • 171, General information, regulations, and definitions
  • 172, Hazardous materials table, special provisions, hazardous materials communications, emergency response information, and training requirements
  • 173, Shippers -- general requirements for shipments and packagings
  • 174, Carriage by rail
  • 175, Carriage by aircraft
  • 176, Carriage by vessel
  • 177, Carriage by public highway
  • 178, Specifications for packagings
  • 179, Specifications for tank cars
  • 180, Continuing qualification and maintenance of packagings