The risk of combustible dust explosions in industrial settings, initiated by electrostatic discharges, presents a significant challenge to maintaining safety and reliability in processes involving ...

A fire at the packaging station of a flour mill led to a series of dust explosions that caused over $100 million of damage, disrupted flour supply, and led to the loss of 14 lives. In the U.S., the ...

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 ...

Wood can burn. That's obvious. Wood chips and pellets belong to the important secondary fuels category in modern power plants, furnaces or heat generators. Yet it is still not common knowledge that ...

SAVANNAH, GA – In a final draft report released today, Chemical Safety Board investigators said the Feb. 7, 2008, deadly explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA, resulted from ...

OSHA has given an update on the citation against Horizon Biofuels in the wake of a fatal explosion in 2025.

The fact that over 280 dust-related explosions or fires have occurred in the past 25 years, resulting in 119 fatalities and over 700 injuries, has not gone unnoticed regulatory agencies or ...

Due to the growing awareness of combustible dust hazards and broader adoption of regulatory requirements to complete a dust hazard analysis (DHA), manufacturing facilities are increasing efforts to ...

FREMONT, Neb. (WOWT) - Following the dust explosion in Fremont that left one man and two children dead, First Alert 6 spoke with a fire safety expert to explain how that can happen. Fire Safety Expert ...

It floats on air, often ignored. Few people appreciate the hazard until it devastates lives and businesses, as it did in a deadly February blast at a Georgia sugar plant. To ensure a disaster of that ...

The U.S. House voted 247-165 Wednesday night to approve a bill that supporters said would lessen the risk of combustible dust explosions such as the one near Savannah that killed 13 Imperial Sugar ...

Your garage may contain a hidden fire risk you're overlooking, and it's not just fuel or chemicals but something that can ...