Posts on Combustible Dust

Combustible Dust on 60 Minutes this Sunday

We've written a lot in this space on the danger posed to workers by combustible dust, so I wanted to pass this news along: Sunday night at 7:00 PM, legendary investigative news show 60 Minutes will be running a segment...

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz on June 6, 2008 1:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

George Bush Doesn't Care About Exploding People

We’ve written extensively in this space on the problem of combustible dust explosions. There’s been some activity on this front in the last few days, so an update is probably in order. First, the good news — on Wednesday,...

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz on May 2, 2008 11:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

"A Little Bit Disappointed"

Just weeks after an Imperial Sugar plant in Georgia was devastated by a combustible dust explosion (which claimed another life last Friday, bringing the death toll to thirteen), it is discovered that another Imperial plant -- this one in Gramercy,...

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz on March 18, 2008 3:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

OSHA to Workers: You Can't Have a Rule Protecting You From Combustible Dust Explosions. But You CAN Have a Web Page!

OSHA never ceases to amaze. After weeks of controversy around their unwillingness to protect workers from combustible dust, late last week they announced that they had finally done something on the matter. What had they done, exactly? Put up a...

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz on March 10, 2008 4:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

OSHA to Workers: All Right, All Right, We'll Check if Your Workplace is About to Explode. But Just This Once!

On February 20, I wrote in this space about OSHA's inaction on the problem of "combustible dust" -- invisible particles that build up in some workplaces, creating a dangerous risk of explosions -- and how that inaction led to the...

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz on March 4, 2008 12:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

It's Past Time to Protect Workers from Combustible Dust

On Friday, February 8, the Imperial Sugar processing plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia, exploded. The explosion killed at least eight workers and sent dozens more to the hospital. It took firefighters a week to put out the fire. What caused...

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz on February 20, 2008 4:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)