Silos with an explosion prevention system can vent out that pressure and fireball, or suppress flames with foam or carbon dioxide. Duct work can also have spark-detection and extinguishing systems ...
Seven dust-fueled explosions caused 10 injuries and four fatalities in 2025, according to a Purdue University report. That represents a drop in incidents from the prior year, but an increase in ...
More robust rules are coming to regulate combustible dust in B.C. workplaces, more than 14 years after two separate deadly explosions in northern B.C. sawmills were fueled by wood dust. In 2012, the ...
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The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA) has issued more than $3.1 million in penalties to a Tennessee explosives plant where 16 workers were killed in a massive explosion.