For purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions apply:

(1)  "Bureau" means the business and occupational licensing bureau of the department of labor and industry.

(2)  "Construction blaster" means that qualified person in charge of and responsible for the loading and firing of a construction blast.

(3)  "Construction blasting" means the use of explosives to reduce, destroy, or weaken residential, commercial or other buildings; or excavate any trench, ditch, cut or hole, or reduce, destroy, weaken or cause a change in grade of any land formation in the construction of any building, highway, road, pipeline, sewerline, or electric or other utility line.

(4)  "Explosives" means and includes any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that contains any oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities, or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.

(5)  "Magazine" means any building or other structure, other than a factory building, used for the storage of explosives.