In this the first of two parts, Will Sampson talks with wood dust fire prevention expert Jeffrey C. Nichols about combustible wood dust hazards, new regulations, and what shops can do to prevent ...

NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT TEN. WITNESSES OF THE PLANNED EXPLOSION IN FREMONT TRIED TO RESCUE A FATHER WHO DIED. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M QUANECIA FRASER. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. THAT’S PART OF TODAY’S UPDATE ...

State regulators visited a Fremont wood pellet plant in February, finding a potentially faulty dust collection system had allowed sawdust to waft from the facility five months before state fire ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board advised people to stay away from the site of a deadly plant explosion in Fremont as their investigation continues. The blast in July at the ...

The deadly wood dust explosion and fire at a Nebraska pellet plant was a “terrible tragedy” made more so by findings that at least one of the three fatalities was alive and trapped in the rubble after ...

Earlier this year, after an industrial manufacturing explosion in Singapore killed three and injured seven more, NFPA Journal put out a timely piece entitled Dust Disaster and an NFPA Learn Something ...