The Explosive Problem of Killer Dust
From Our Friends at : The Regulatory Review The Explosive Problem of Killer Dust Katherine McKeen Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Print Font Size: A A Despite ongoing fatalities, OSHA has no specific regulations in place for combustible dust hazards. Tweet Share Post Email Print Link Font Size: A A Between 1980 and 2005, 281 combustible dust explosions led to the deaths of 119 industrial workers and injuring of 718 others. And in the years since, similar disasters have caused numerous additional fatalities; in 2008, a single sugar dust ignition killed 14 workers in Georgia. Such tragedies may have been “readily preventable” if workplaces adopted certain engineering controls, ventilation systems, and training protocols. Yet the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has retreated from setting specific regulations for combustible dust hazards, citing...