ORLEANS, Vt. – Workers were sent home from an Ethan Allen furniture plant in Orleans, Vt.,  on Monday, July 11, because of a fire that was sparked by a malfunctioning boiler.  According to news station WCAX, embers from a chip silo started other small fires. All of the fires were extinguished and no workers were injured. 

A baghouse dust collector exploded March 5 blowing the top off a silo at the Buchanan Lumber Company in Aliceville. The explosion, which injured one person, occurred less than four months after the dust collector caught fire and had to be shut down for repair. The crew had just finished making those repairs.

A wood dust fire and explosion was reported by local media at the East Providence industrial complex that houses a wood products business