Imperial Sugar Co. and managers of its Georgia refinery ignored known dangers of explosive dust for decades before a chain of dust-fueled fireballs erupted at the plant last year and killed 14 people, ...

Combustible dust has been the culprit of deadly workplace blasts for decades, but not until the February 2008 explosion killed 14 people at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Ga., did the ...

We've been blogging and writing a lot recently on the basics of combustible dust. Makes sense; after all, what safety professional knows exactly how much of their particular dust, in their particular ...

Various systems and measures can be used to safely handle and process explosive pharmaceutical compounds in a range of manufacturing procedures. The potential for dust explosions during pharmaceutical ...

Dust explosions represent a critical hazard across numerous industries, with dynamics governed by factors such as particle size, moisture content, concentration, and inherent material properties. The ...

Regardless of how much prevention is employed to mitigate combustible dust in coal-fired power plants, fugitive coal dust is pervasive and can be dangerous. In coal-fired power plants, mechanical ...

OSHA put its Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program into place over 10 years ago. Since then, new NFPA standards on combustible dust have been issued, OSHA’s plan for a comprehensive Combustible ...