Clearing the air on common myths about combustible dust hazards and how NFPA standards and explosion protection systems can help facilities stay compliant and safe. If your facility handles materials ...

Dust collection systems are used in many industries to capture airborne dust generated during operations. By removing dust particles, they maintain clean air in working environments to ensure the ...

The fact that over 280 dust-related explosions or fires have occurred in the past 25 years, resulting in 119 fatalities and over 700 injuries, has not gone unnoticed regulatory agencies or ...

When dust collection expert Robert Williamson at Nederman Corporation, saw the video of the series of deadly explosions at Horizon Biofuels, a wood pellet and animal bedding manufacturer in Fremont, ...

Coal fired power plants are dusty places. The handling and transportation of coal creates dust. This causes health issues and can lead to explosions if not properly maintained. Most dust collection ...

THE MASSIVE LETHAL explosion in a dusty sugar plant in Georgia earlier this month has reopened debates on how to reduce the likelihood of explosions due to combustible dust, hundreds of which have ...

Firefighters were pouring water on a dust collector at a wood manufacturing plant when a dust explosion engulfed firefighters in flames. The Abbotsford firefighters escaped uninjured. The mission of ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - February 17, 2008 Stephen Selk, investigations manager for the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, had few details about the previous explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth ...

State regulators visited a Fremont wood pellet plant in February, finding a potentially faulty dust collection system had allowed sawdust to waft from the facility five months before state fire ...

Six workers died in 2011 after a grain dust explosion in Atchinson, Kan. Grain dust is nine times as explosive as coal dust, according to OSHA. Bartlett Grain Co. and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL ...