New Taipei Water Park Explosion
GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Some readers may find the graphic nature of this article and the discussion of the trauma within upsetting. Please exercise personal caution. Image source: New Taipei Fire ...
A Dark Day in Cheshire: Bosley Mill Explosion
Courtesy of Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service. At 9:11 a.m. on the morning of July 17, 2015, fire bells went off at both the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Macclesfield ...
The Milwaukee Works Explosion
May 20, 1919 Source: The American elevator and grain trade When 15-year-old Bernard Kilps arrived for his morning shift at the Smith-Parry Grain Elevator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he probably anticipated ...
Forgotten Disaster: The Murray Grain Elevator Explosion of 1919
Between May 20 and September 13, 1919, four grain elevators in the U.S. were destroyed by dust explosions, leaving 70 people dead and 60 injured. Three of these disasters- Milwaukee ...
Was the Titanic of the Mississippi a Coal Dust Explosion?
Sultana at Helena, Arkansas on April 26, 1865, a day before the explosion. Source: Library of Congress April 27, 1865 Otto Bardon (Library of Congress) Otto Bardon was eager to ...
The Day Cedar Rapids Shook- The Douglas Starch Works Plant Explosion of 1919
May 22, 1919 It had been a normal workday for the day shift at the Douglas & Company Starch Works plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A starting box malfunction at ...
Dangerous Dust: The Port Colborne Grain Elevator Explosion of 1919
Source: Wikipedia When employees at the Dominion Grain Elevator in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, arrived for work on August 9, 1919, they may have had an inkling of the danger ...
Remembering the Peterborough Quaker Oats Explosion
On Monday, December 11, 1916, hundreds of workers reported for duty at the Quaker Oats plant in Peterborough, Ontario. Although it was the first day of the workweek, for 24 ...
Review of “By Accident… A Life Preventing Them in Industry” by Trevor Kletz (IChemE)
One of my goals for 2019 is to help spread the work of others in process safety, loss prevention, and combustible dust fire and explosion research. Over the last seven ...
Threading the Needle – Dust Collection for Shot Blasting Machines
Guest Author: Krystof Litomisky Generally speaking, getting “good performance” from an industrial dust collection system is a matter of getting “enough” - enough air velocity at all drops such that waste ...
Overhead Hazards – The Importance of High-Level Combustible Dust Cleaning
Guest Author: Andy Collar What do the fatal West Pharmaceutical Services Explosion in 2004 (Kinston, NC) and the Hoeganaes metal dust flash fires in 2011 (Gallatin, TN), have in common? ...
Exploring Dust Explosion Pentagon and Other Requirements
What Are The Requirements for a Combustible Dust Hazard? Well this depends on which hazard you are talking about. Handling, manufacturing, or transporting combustible dust can lead to fires, flash-fires, ...