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 ...

The cause of the Imperial Sugar Co. refinery fire remained under investigation Friday, but an explosion of sugar dust is one working theory of the blast. "It's a viable option," said Capt. Matt Sta… ...

Imperial Sugar resumed refining sugar at its Georgia plant in June, 16 months after the explosion. The company says it has adopted voluntary standards to minimize dust hazards and included new ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Dust that collected in a piece of safety equipment caused a small explosion at a sugar refinery weeks before the deadly blast that killed nine workers, a federal investigator ...

More than 300 dust explosions have killed more than 120 workers in grain silos, sugar refineries and food processing plants over the past three decades. Most are preventable by removing fine-grain ...

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 ...

Particles of 0.42 mm (small enough to float in air) or less are explosive; sugar dust can be as small as 0.03 mm. The disruption of a layer of dust as shallow as 132 in. can start a deadly chain ...

Last year's deaths of 14 sugar factory workers in Georgia could have been prevented if manufacturer Imperial Sugar Co. had taken available steps to reduce the presence of sugar dust in its ...

Volatile dust was blamed Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and crews pulled four bodies from tunnels beneath the mangled mass of metal and beams left by the blast.

Imperial Sugar chief executive John Sheptor said the explosion had occurred at around 1920 (0020 GMT) on Thursday in a silo where refined sugar was stored until being packaged. "As far as we know, it ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – 17 years ago, Feb. 7, 2008, an explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth rocked the ...

Complacency as happened at the Imperial Sugar plant merely invites disaster: if you can see the dust build-up on surfaces & dust in the air, you’re already at least at DEFCON 2.