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Disregarding Combustible Dust Safety Causes OSHA Citations
When a company receives fines for violations found during an OSHA inspection, it is supposed to fix the issues found. ...
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Getting Ready for OSHA Combustible Dust Regulations
With the NFPA publishing the NFPA 652 Standard on Fundamentals of Combustible Dust the new OSHA combustible dust ...
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Five Reasons to Get Rid of Dust In Your Factory
“What’s so bad about having a little bit of dust around? It’s not like it’s really hurting anything, is it?”
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Injuries From Chinese Dust Explosion Still Haven’t Healed
Explosion site inside Zhongrong Metal Products factory. Image Courtesy of China.org.cn
Explosions from combustible dust have been an issue in manufacturing for hundreds of years, but it wasn’t until OSHA ...
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Candy Factory Suffers Sugar Dust Explosion
Candy always seems so innocent and fun, but the production behind it can create all sorts of hazardous conditions. ...
While wildfires continue to ravage California, Texas, and other states, the news reports always mention the scale of ...
Eight years ago this month (October 18, 2007) OSHA began its Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program (NEP), which ...
In a previous post we talked about the combustible dust fines over $100,000 that OSHA gave companies. Several years ...
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Accidental Amputation Leads To Combustible Dust Fine
After a worker at a baby diaper recycling facility had four of his fingers amputated OSHA inspectors came to ...
Circular saws can be a dangerous tool to use- OSHA has almost 500 reports of workers injured using one on the job. With ...
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Combustible Plastic Dust Leads To OSHA Fines
A plastic container manufacturing plant in Bryan, Texas was inspected by OSHA and fined for what the inspectors found. ...
