Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC) has expanded its corporate headquarters here with the recent opening of a 13,600 sq. ft. (1,263 sq. meter) office facility.
A combustible wood dust explosion and fire that injured a worker at Inferno Wood Pellet Inc. was "preventable," according to Patrick Griffin, area director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's office in Rhode Island.
Fauske & Associates LLC has opened what it describes as a "comprehensive, state-of-the-art" combustible dust hazards testing lab and education center in Burr Ridge, a southwest suburb of Chicago.
On November 1, WorkSafeBC officers will begin another round of inspections as part of the ongoing, comprehensive combustible dust initiative to focus sawmills and other wood processors in keeping worksites safe.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) new publication, Firefighting Precautions at Facilities with Combustible Dust, includes four examples of instances where firefighters were killed or injured battling a combustible dust fire at a wood manufacturing plant.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today published Firefighting Precautions at Facilities with Combustible Dust*, a new, informative booklet that outlines safe procedures for emergency responders who may face fires and explosions caused by combustible dust.
Lakeland Mills Ltd. announced today it will build a new sawmill to replace the one destroyed in an explosion and fire on April 23, 2012, that left two employees dead.