Tag: combustible dust
Dozens of Combustible Dust Fatalities and Injurie...
As H.R. 5522, the Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Act bill moves to the House floor shortly, dozens of fatalities and injuries are unaccounted for. Legislators, governmental agencies, and industry trade associations only have a partial picture of the magnitude...
OSHA’s Scorched Earth Campaign-Combustible Dusts
Last time Americans heard of a scorched earth campaign was nearly a century and a half ago toward the end of the Civil War when Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman conducted his “Savannah...
Spooner Explosion-Dust or Vapor ?
OpinionThe catastrophic Tuesday chemical plant explosion at the Cortec aerosol can filling facility in Spooner, Wisconsin is still a mystery to local, state, and federal investigators. Luckily, most of the workers were in the break room when the mysterious explosion...
Metal Combustible Dust Fires Rage On
Combustible dust fires across the nation have been an ongoing trend over the past six weeks since the catastrophic Dixie Crystal Sugar Refinery explosion last month.""MUSKEGON COUNTY — A fire that started early this morning at the Port City Industrial Finishing Inc. plant...
Combustible Dust Fires Occuring with Regularity
Another preventable combustible wood dust fire occurred in our nation's lumbering region in Pittsfield, Maine this morning at Hancock Lumber. Luckily no one was injured, only economic property damage and disruption to mill operations.
From the company's website, the...
Down Under Combustible Dust Fire
It appears that combustible dust fires and explosions are not limited to the United States as this news release from Australia informs us here on the other side of the equator."Fire crews are confident they have...
