n a public meeting held here today, members of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board declared the response by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to seven long-standing recommendations – on combustible dust, fuel gas and the Process Safety Management standard – to be “unacceptable.”

The risk of a dust explosion increases when low humidity levels, like those seen in winter months, make dust easy to disperse and ignite.

On Feb. 20, 2003, powerful dust explosions tore through the CTA Acoustics plant in Corbin, where fiberglass insulation was manufactured for the automotive industry.

WASHINGTON - Rafeal Moure-Eraso, chairman of the Chemical Safety Board, recently cited his disappointment that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has yet to develop a standard to regulate combustible dust in manufacturing environments.

Nashville, TN – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board today released its final report on three accidents that occurred in 2011 at the Hoeganaes powdered metals plant in Gallatin, Tennessee.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released test results confirming preliminary conclusions that two flash fires which occurred at the Hoeganaes Corporation plant in Gallatin, Tennessee—one fatal—involved the combustion of iron powder which had accumulated throughout the facility and became airborne in combustible concentrations.