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 ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The number of grain dust explosions in the United States fell to a 10-year low in 2016, but two of the incidents resulted in the first reported fatalities since 2013, according ...
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,” ...
Speaking with workers injured in a dust explosion last December at a Chinese factory where Apple products are manufactured, NPR uncovers the careless way these companies dealt with the problem. Dust ...
Facility owners and operators handling potentially combustible dust were required to complete a Dust Hazards Analysis (DHA) by September 7, 2020 — five years after the effective date of the first ...
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 ...
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 ...
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Two girls were waiting for a relative to finish work at a Nebraska biofuel plant when all three were killed in a massive explosion that shook the town, officials said Wednesday.
In late 2022, Archer Daniels Midland’s Fremont, Nebraska, facility experienced an explosion. Safety inspectors found areas ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Investigators are still looking into what caused of an elevator explosion in Fremont, Nebraska on Tuesday that killed three people, including a dad and his two daughters.