Sometimes a safety issue literally blows up in the face of U.S. regulators. That was the case last month when an explosion and fire at an Imperial Sugar Co. refinery in Port Wentworth, Ga., likely ...

OSHA says Imperial Sugar must pay almost $9 million for more than a hundred safety violations for the explosion at the sugar refinery that killed 13 people and injured 40 others.

In April, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosion and Fires Act (H.R. 5522). The bill, introduced by Miller and Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., ...

SAVANNAH, GA – In a final draft report released today, Chemical Safety Board investigators said the Feb. 7, 2008, deadly explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA, resulted ...

A few months after that, the Chemical Safety Board took the rare step of rebuking OSHA for not implementing national safety standards on combustible dust, citing the Imperial Sugar explosion and ...

Even before Imperial Sugar, the CSB had investigated a series of deadly dust accidents and recommended in 2006 that OSHA issue a rule to protect workers from dust fires and explosions.

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - The US Chemical Safety Board has released its report on the February 7, 2008 explosion at Imperial Sugar that killed 14 people and injured dozens more. The report released ...

Imperial Sugar was fined $8.8 million for violations related to combustible dust at this Georgia plant, site of a February explosion, and another in Louisiana. ILLUSTRATION: Associated Press ...

Oregon OSHA spokeswoman Melanie Mesaros says the agency can only track dust fires or explosions causing death or serious injury, which must be reported to the government. She says the state has ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion ...