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Worst Year for Waste and Recycling Facility Fires Ever Capped Off by Best Two Months

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Worst Year for Waste and Recycling Facility Fires Ever Capped Off by Best Two Months Brought to you by Waste 360 and Ryan Fogelman, JD/MBA, is vice president of strategic partnerships for Fire Rover. Worst Year for Waste and Recycling Facility Fires Ever Capped Off by Best Two Months Ryan Fogelman The final numbers are in, and 2022 officially surpassed all prior years in regard to waste and recycling facility fires. There were 390 unique fire incidents reported at waste and recycling facilities in the U.S. and Canada, and based on reasonable assumptions, we can extrapolate that 2,400-plus facility fires occurred in 2022.   Ryan Fogelman | Jan 09, 2023 The final numbers are in, and 2022 officially surpassed all prior years in regard to waste and recycling facility fires. There were 390 unique fire incidents reported at waste and recycling facilities in the U.S. and Canada, and based on reasonable assumptions, we can extrapolate that 2,400-plus facility fires occurr...
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Number of Factory Fires Jumped by 129% in 2021

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From Poweder and Bulk Solids https://www.powderbulksolids.com/industrial-fires-explosions/number-factory-fires-jumped-129-2021   Representative image Data gathered by risk management firm Resilinc shows that 59% of the fires in manufacturing facilities were caused by faulty equipment. John S. Forrester | Nov 17, 2022 A recent report released by risk management solutions firm Resilinc found that the number of fires in factories increased by a whopping 129% between 2020 and 2021 as facility operators grappled with a variety of challenges that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company posits that the rate of factory fires in 2022 may exceed the high rate of incidents recorded last year. 1,946 notifications on factory fires were distributed through Resilinc’s EventWatch data platform in 2021. A company whitepaper, “Spotlight on Factory Fires,” details that the platform has pushed out 2,889 alerts on factory fires so far in 2022, which the...
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2022 Officially the Worst Year for Waste and Recycling Facility Fires 

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2022 Officially the Worst Year for Waste and Recycling Facility Fires   From LinkedIn and Waste 360 2022 Officially the Worst Year for Waste and Recycling Facility Fires 🔥 Published on December 12, 2022 SUEZ YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/6l94tWf3XZE Ryan Fogelman, J.D., MBA Fire Rover / COhatch / Stick Grip 78 articles As published in Waste360. The good news is we finally had a reprieve from the record months we have been experiencing in the waste and recycling industry this year. Howev...
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Bucket Elevator Safety

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Ducking Disaster By Elevating Safety 7th November 2022 Online Editor Bucket elevators are found in many industries, both inside and outside of plants Explosion protection systems play a key role in keeping bucket elevators operating safely Keep your bucket elevators safe against combustible dust explosions, cautions Filip Ďurica Bucket elevators and other vertical conveyors are part of the agriculture and grain industries and many other industries. They can be installed outside, inside or both, thanks to their d...
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Combustion concerns: Fume and dust management in grinding and welding operations

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Combustion concerns Fume and dust management in grinding and welding operations demand careful system designs By Travis Haynam November 7, 2022 Article Welding Join Discussion When collecting dust and fumes in a manufacturing environment, not only does the system you use have to draw harmful materials away from operators, it needs to do so in a manner that safely guards against the risk of explosions or fire in the dust or fume collector. Weld fume rarely is explosive, but a lot of the weld fume is combustible; in other words, though it is at little risk of creating an explosion, there is a risk of starting a fire due to sparks entering the system. Grinding, on the other hand, can create a very ex...
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