SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - It's the worst combustible dust explosion the US Chemical Safety Board has ever investigated and now, CSB is releasing its findings on the Imperial Sugar blast that killed 14 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - An explosion at Imperial Sugar's plant near Savannah, Georgia, in 2008 that killed 14 people was "entirely preventable," the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said in a report on ...

The Feb. 7 explosion at the Imperial Sugar Co. in Port Wentworth, Ga., killed nine employees and injured dozens of others. During the CSB briefing, Investigations Manager Stephen Selk displayed two ...

The aftermath of the Imperial Sugar explosion that killed 13 in Port Wentsworth, Ga. (CSB) In testimony before the Chemical Safety Board earlier in the day, OSHA’s director of the directorate of ...

Imperial Sugar issued the following statement regarding the Chemical Safety Board's investigation: Port Wentworth, GA - On September 24, 2009, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) issued its final draft ...

The tragic Imperial Sugar Co. blast that killed 13 workers could have been prevented if more stringent regulations governing the grain industry were applied to sugar refineries, said Daniel Horowitz, ...

In congressional testimony on Capitol Hill March 12, OSHA Administrator Edwin Foulke Jr. stated the agency would consider rulemaking on combustible dust a “strong option,” but only if its ...

OSHA reissued the Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program in March 2008 following the fatal dust explosion and fire at the Imperial Sugar refinery Port Wentworth, GA. The blast killed 14 workers ...

Just days into his post as the Imperial Sugar Co.'s chief executive, John Sheptor was touring the company's Port Wentworth, Ga., refinery when a blast knocked him back about 100 feet to the floor.