OSHA has not promulgated a regulation for combustible dust hazards, yet facilities can still be held accountable for safety violations related to this hazard and can receive stiff penalties based on ...
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), in a November 2006 report, detailed the occurrence of nearly 280 dust fires and explosions in U.S. industrial facilities over the prior 25 years that resulted in ...
The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) presented its report Thursday about a fatal Kinston plant fire in 2003 and similar factory fires. Six people died and dozens were injured on Jan. 29, 2003, in an ...
Dust control is not a single point action item. Even with the use of vacuum conveyors that keep dusts contained during material transfer from one process machine to the next, coupled with dust ...
If not properly controlled, coal and coal dust can cause fires, explosions, and implosions at power plants. Strategies for promoting safer management of these combustibles include actions such as ...
When the sun set on May 31, 2017, in Cambria, Wisconsin, no one at Didion Milling's corn processing facility could have ...
Combustible dust is dangerous. Since 1995, fugitive dust has caused at least nine explosions across North America, which have destroyed facilities and injured or killed employees. The dangers of ...
According to a 2012 report by the NFPA, there were an estimated 8,600 structural fires reported to U.S. fire departments each year at industrial or manufacturing properties between 2006 and 2010. Dust ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This information was presented in the webcast “Combustible Sawdust - How to Protect Your Workers & Your Business,” which broadcast in March. Presented by Air Handling’s Jamison Scott, ...
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