If your facility handles materials or powders that produce dust during processes like handling, transferring, packaging or processing, you may face the risk of a combustible dust explosion. These ...

Morgantown, PA -- Food manufacturers know all too well that sugar and spice aren't all that nice when it comes to combustible dust. Processing potentially explosive materials such as flour and grains, ...

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 ...

Combustible dusts are solids finely ground into fine particles, fibers, chips, chunks or flakes that can cause a fire or explosion when suspended in air under certain conditions. Types of dusts ...

“It’s time for workers to stop dying in preventable combustible dust explosions,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. “Workplace safety is not a slogan. It’s a priority clearly embodied in ...

The dust explosion pentagon is a well-known model for understanding the factors that contribute to dust fire, flash fire, and explosion incidents. Among its elements, the control of ignition sources – ...

The deadly wood dust explosion and fire at a Nebraska pellet plant was a “terrible tragedy” made more so by findings that at least one of the three fatalities was alive and trapped in the rubble after ...

Dust explosions can have catastrophic consequences, including irreversible damage and tragic loss of life. An ignition source, such as electrical or thermal equipment, can trigger an explosion when ...

Around 6:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve in 2022, flames ripped through the bowels of an industrial facility in Fremont, Nebraska. Elevators were scorched. Conveyor belts collapsed. Metal doors melted. As ...

FREMONT, Neb. (WOWT) - The independent federal board investigating July’s fatal explosion at Horizon Biofuels released an updated report on Wednesday. “This terrible tragedy should not have happened,” ...