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OSHA Ratchets Up Safety Info for Emergency Responders

admin — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:14:07 +0000

Emergency responders are oftentimes put to the test, given conditions that most people would prefer avoiding. With that in mind, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published Firefighting Precautions at Facilities with Combustible Dust*, a new, informative booklet that outlines safe procedures for emergency responders who are at risk for coming in contact with fires and explosions caused by combustible dust. (read full story)

Flour Mill Explosion Underlines Grain Dust Dangers

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:36:53 +0000

Bartlett Milling Co.’s Statesville, North Carolina, facility was hit by an explosion on April 7, seriously injuring a worker. The explosion occurred while two maintenance workers were in the basement of the building repairing a piece of equipment. (read full story)

Explosion at Flour Mill Repeat Experience for Company

admin — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:09:47 +0000

“Repeat” and possibly even “willful” violations potentially are in store for Bartlett Milling Co., following an explosion at its Statesville, N.C. facility. While no one was killed in the explosion, one worker seriously was injured and, unfortunately, the company was cited in the past by OSHA for health and safety violations related to the build up of combustible grain dust. (read full story)

Controlling Dust Explosions in Waste and Recycling

admin — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:53:41 +0000

Any industry which handles fine organic dusts is at risk of these materials burning and exploding. Every year, premises are severely damaged or destroyed by dust fires that usually start in dust extraction and waste conveying equipment. Just a few burning embers entering a dust collector, bin or silo is enough to trigger a dust explosion which would typically lead to fire. (read full story)

OSHA issues new resource to protect emergency workers at combustible dust fires

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:13:13 +0000

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today published Firefighting Precautions at Facilities with Combustible Dust*, a new, informative booklet that outlines safe procedures for emergency responders who may face fires and explosions caused by combustible dust. (read full story)

Business evacuated after fire small dust explosion in duct work triggers incident

admin — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000

About 70 people evacuated the Spaulding Composites Monday after a one-alarm fire broke out in the building early Monday afternoon. (read full story)

Congress to consider combustible dust proposal

admin — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:28:07 +0000

House Democrats have introduced legislation to prevent workplace explosions caused by combustible industrial dusts. (read full story)

Imperial Sugar avoids criminal charges for fatal Georgia plant dust explosion

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:59:46 +0000

The US Justice Department said it will not press criminal charges against Imperial Sugar Co. for the 2008 refinery explosion in Port Wentworth, Georgia, which killed 14 workers. US Attorney Edward Tarver said prosecutors had determined that they could only bring misdemeanor charges against Imperial for violating industrial cleanliness standards. (read full story)

Bill to Prevent Industrial Dust Explosions Re-Introduced

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:01:51 +0000

U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the senior Democratic member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Rep. John Barrow (D-GA), and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), the senior Democrat of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, reintroduced legislation today to prevent workplace explosions caused by combustible industrial dusts. (read full story)

Imperial Sugar tragedy: Unfinished business

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:43:22 +0000

IT’S HARD to believe that five years have elapsed since a huge fireball lit up the night sky over west Chatham County, where 14 people died in a preventable catastrophe that destroyed part of the Imperial Sugar refinery along the Savannah River. (read full story)