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Combustible Metal Dust Fire At Zippo Factory

Even a manufacturing plant that makes lighters is not immune from fire risks, and a Zippo factory in Pennsylvania found ...

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Focus On Safety Causes Grain Dust Explosions To Hit Record Low

After years of regulations being updated and enforced the total number of grain dust explosions fell to a record ten ...

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Metal Dust Fire Creates Explosion Risk

A common issue we run into is that people don’t realize that metal dust can be a fire and explosion risk, and proceed ...

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Fire In Ductwork At Tennessee Manufacturing Plant

In the past we’ve discussed the importance of making sure ductwork is cleaned and free of any combustible dust ...

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Rubber Dust Fire Causes Mass Evacuations And Water Shortage

It’s always frustrating when known issues are ignored, especially when those issues end up causing the same problems ...

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Fatal Dust Explosion Found To Be Preventable

In February 2016 an explosion occurred in a Georgia chicken feed mill, killing a 25 year old worker and injuring 5 ...

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Disregarding Combustible Dust Safety Causes OSHA Citations

When a company receives fines for violations found during an OSHA inspection, it is supposed to fix the issues found. ...

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Getting Ready for OSHA Combustible Dust Regulations

With the NFPA publishing the NFPA 652 Standard on Fundamentals of Combustible Dust the new OSHA combustible dust ...

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Enclosed Conveyor Belts Lead To Dust Explosions

How do you solve the problem of material on a conveyor belt producing dust as it is being transferred, and fugitive ...

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