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 ...

A few months after that, the Chemical Safety Board took the rare step of rebuking OSHA for not implementing national safety standards on combustible dust, citing the Imperial Sugar explosion and ...

Combustible Dust Explosions: ... Tragedies such as the Imperial Sugar refinery explosion in Georgia, responsible for 14 deaths and deemed by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board as the most ...

The explosion occurred at around 7 p.m. on Feb. 7, 2008, and the cause was determined to be sugar dust. ... Statistics on combustible dust explosions are thought to be under-reported.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Dust that collected in a piece of safety equipment caused a small explosion at a sugar refinery weeks before the deadly blast that killed nine workers, a federal investigator ...

RESOURCES. OSHA Combustible Dust page. Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program.OSHA Directive CPL 03-00-008, (March 11, 2008). Great source to show what OSHA considers.

Combustible dust, or dangerous dust, builds up in between machines and on pipes, ... A deadly example is the Imperial Sugar Plant Explosion that took place on Feb. 7, 2008.

The dust can be dangerous for many industries, including food, textile, metal, pesticides and coal. The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), which represents more than 10,000 health and ...

The aftermath of the Imperial Sugar explosion that killed 13 in Port Wentsworth, Ga. (CSB) ... was killed in a preventable combustible-dust explosion at an aluminum plant in Indiana in 2003.

OSHA will issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on combustible dust, with plans to convene stakeholder meetings to evaluate possible regulatory methods and request data and comments on ...

Tragedies such as the Imperial Sugar refinery explosion in Georgia, responsible for 14 deaths and deemed by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board as the most devasting dust explosion in decades, offer a ...

Combustible dust-fueled fires and explosions continue to injure and claim workers' lives across a ... Tragedies such as the Imperial Sugar refinery explosion in Georgia, responsible for 14 deaths and ...