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Article: Combustible dust hazards: worry Feds.(news Scan)(Brief Article)
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- Industrial Safety & Hygiene News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Federal investigators explosion that fatally injured seven workers in Kentucky earlier this year was probably caused by a fire in a mal-functioning production line oven that ignited flammable dust particles.
Dr. Jerry Poje, a member of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, says the accident came less than a month after a similar blast at a Kinston, N.C., plant killed six people. The Kinston explosion, and lesser ones in California and Mississippi, are believed to have been caused, at least partly, by flammable dust that exploded, he says.
Workplace safety experts are increasingly concerned that flammable dust in factories represents the same kind of danger ...