Date: August 20, 2018
Location: Rothschild, Wisconsin (USA)
Address: 200 North Grand Avenue, 54474
Type: Dust Fire
Fuel: Paper Dust
Industry: Paper Production (Pulp & Paper)
Equipment:
Company: Domtar
Database Incidents: None Recorded
Loss: No Injuries
Capital Cost: Unknown
Status: Open
Confirmation: Unconfirmed
Company Description:
According to the company website, Domtar designs, manufactures, and distributes a wide variety of pulp, paper and personal care products. The pulp and paper division consists of a network of 13 pulp and paper mills and 10 paper converting facilities which gives the company three million tons of papermaking capacity and 1.8 million air-dried metric tons of market pulp capacity annually. The personal care division, which was created in 2011 with the purchase of Attends Healthcare, manufactures products for adults, babies and children.
Incident Description:
On August 21, 2018 the local television news agency WAOW reported that fire crews spent more than an hour at a paper mill in Rothschild, Wisconsin, monitoring a smouldering dust pile. According to fire officials, they extinguished the pile, which was in the manufacturing area of the bio-mass plant, before turning the facility back over to employees for cleanup.
There was no active fire and no one was injured
OSHA Inspections:
An establishment search showed four OSHA inspection for the Domtar location in Rothschild, Wisconsin, but none of them involved combustible dust.
Sources:
WAOW
