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Article: OSHA continues crackdown on combustible dust hazards.(FOR THE RECORD)
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- Wood & Wood Products
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- August 1, 2009
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Would your plant pass muster if Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspectors knocked on your door unannounced looking for potential combustible dust hazards?
As I chronicled in my June column, OSHA has stepped up its enforcement and regulatory activities, including announcing in April plans to initiate a comprehensive rulemaking on combustible dust to protect workers. These renewed efforts include wood dust.
OSHA reissued its Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program in March 2008, one month after 14 employees died and dozens more were injured in a dust explosion and fire at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA. Between ...