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- Title
CSB investigates sugar dust fatalities.
- Abstract
The article reports that according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), the fatal blast on February 7, 2008 at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia was due most likely to dust explosion. CSB investigators say that identifying the ignition source of the accumulating combustible dust may not be possible. The CSB study showed that around one fourth of the dust explosions between 1980 to 2005 which killed a total of 119 people were in the food industry including the sugar refineries.
- Subjects
PORT Wentworth (Ga.); GEORGIA; EXPLOSIONS; SUGAR factories; FOOD industry; UNITED States. Chemical Safety &; Hazard Investigation Board
- Publication
TCE: The Chemical Engineer, 2008, Issue 801, p12
- ISSN
0302-0797
- Publication type
Article