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Featured Resource: Dust Off This Combustible Dust Checklist
September 2011
It can obscure your vision and clog your nose and throat. It can coat surfaces, making signage hard to read and contaminating materials. But dust poses another serious hazard, too--it can explode. And materials you might not ordinarily think of as fire hazards, such as foodstuffs, can be extremely hazardous when they are present as dust. . . .
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Hazardous Chemicals:
San Bruno Pipeline Explosion Leads to Urgent Safety Recommendations from NTSB
March 2011
Jessica Morales and Joseph Ruigomez were watching a football game at Ruigomez' home on Sept. 9, 2010. Arturo Vasquez was fixing himself a snack in the kitchen of his own house, not far away. Jacqueline and Janessa Grieg were waiting for family members to return for evening activities that had been planned. Like the other residents of the Crestmoor neighborhood in San Bruno, they were all caught completely by surprise just after 6 p.m., when disaster struck. . . .
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News Note: Chemical Safety Board Releases New Combustible Dust Video
September 2009
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video depicting how accumulations of combustible dust at worksites can provide the fuel for devastating explosions. The video, "Combustible Dust: An Insidious Hazard," features computer animations that illustrate three major dust explosion accidents . . .
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Combustible Dusts: Act Now to Protect Workers from Explosions
August 2008
On Feb. 7, 2008, the city of Savannah, Ga., shook to the blast of an explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery, which claimed 13 lives. In the four months following that incident, more than 50 additional combustible dust explosions occurred in the United States, including one in the Los Angeles . . .
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Fire Safety: Could Your Business Survive a Wildfire?
June 2008
The 2007 wildfire season was devastating for Southern California. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes, more than 2,000 houses were destroyed, more than half a million acres burned across seven counties, and more than 3,000 businesses were directly . . .
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