CSB Investigation Warns of Dust Explosion Risk at Recycling Facilities
VIDEO: CSB Investigation Warns of Dust Explosion Risk at Recycling Facilities from Waste Management World VIDEO: CSB Investigation Warns of Dust Explosion Risk at Recycling Facilities 18 July 2014 By Ben Messenger Managing Editor The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its final report, safety recommendations and accompanying safety video into a fatal combustible dust explosion at the AL Solutions metal recycling facility in New Cumberland, West Virginia. As presented to the Board for a vote at a public meeting in Charleston, the report reiterates a recommendation that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgate a general industry combustible dust standard, which CSB said it has been calling for since its 2006 study on these preventable accidents. The December 9, 2010 accident at the AL Solutions metal recycling facility, which milled and processed scrap titanium and zirconium metal, killed three employees and in...