Dust explosions garnered national attention this week with the catastrophic coal dust explosion at a Wisconsin coal-fired electrical energy plant in conjunction with the reintroduction of the combustible dust bill. While it is undisputed that worker protection is needed...
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Yesterday on a cool clear quiet morning on the western slopes of the Ozark Plateau the neighborhood in Springdale, Arkansas would soon be aroused by a loud explosion from the wood product plant across the street. Mixing sawdust particles with plastic resins at high...
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Thursday started out as a normal day at many workplaces across the nation. After the lunchtime break, things would begin to change and heat up real quick in a span of two hours across three states. Prior to the...
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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...
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Six weeks have passed now since the horrific Imperial Sugar Refinery
combustible dust explosion that occurred in Port Wentworth, Georgia on
the evening of February 7. Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor...
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