SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - It's the worst combustible dust explosion the US Chemical Safety Board has ever investigated and now, CSB is releasing its findings on the Imperial Sugar blast that killed 14 ...

SAVANNAH, GA – In a final draft report released today, Chemical Safety Board investigators said the Feb. 7, 2008, deadly explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA, resulted from ...

The aftermath of the Imperial Sugar explosion that killed 13 in Port Wentsworth, Ga. (CSB) In testimony before the Chemical Safety Board earlier in the day, OSHA’s director of the directorate of ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) announced it will hold a public hearing related to its investigation of combustible dust hazards at industrial facilities. The hearing ...

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has issued a report that calls on OSHA to issue a standard aimed at preventing combustible dust explosions and fires, which have killed 119 ...

Members of a federal board voted Thursday to name a national safety standard for combustible dust as its “most wanted” priority for worker protection. The vote by the Chemical Safety and Hazard ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - An explosion at Imperial Sugar's plant near Savannah, Georgia, in 2008 that killed 14 people was "entirely preventable," the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said in a report on ...

Dust control is not a single point action item. Even with the use of vacuum conveyors that keep dusts contained during material transfer from one process machine to the next, coupled with dust ...

OSHA will issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and convene related stakeholder meetings to evaluate possible regulatory methods, and request data and comments on issues related to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – New safety rules will not be approved any time soon even though they could prevent accidents like the ones last year at a Tennessee metal powders plant, where fireballs fueled ...

When equipment works efficiently and simplifies a task, the task is more likely to be performed by workers regularly and correctly. Dust control is not a single point action item. Even with the use of ...