By Cobic B.V., with input from Gido van Tienhoven, ATEX/IECEx explosion safety specialist Key takeaways:  Preventable disasters stem from neglect, not mystery. The Imperial Sugar explosion showed how ...

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 from ...

Powdered sugar is a staple in baking - but under the right conditions, it can be surprisingly dangerous. This article ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (WSAV) — The investigation at this sugar refinery in the day, weeks, and months following that deadly night in 2008 found that management at this plant, at that time knew the ...

ATLANTA, Sept 24 (Reuters) - An explosion at Imperial Sugar's plant near Savannah, Georgia, in 2008 that killed 14 people was "entirely preventable," the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said in a ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) — Firefighters have recovered three bodies from a sugar refinery near Savannah, Georgia. And they’re searching for the remains of at least three others. Georgia’s top fire ...

(Reuters) -Multiple people were killed after an explosion on Friday at a military explosives plant in Tennessee, and 19 ...

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Sugar dust is so combustible that static electricity, sparks from metal tools or a cigarette can ignite explosions. More than 300 dust explosions have killed more than 120 workers in grain silos, ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Hardhats were hung in the centers of 10 wreaths of white carnations at a memorial service Saturday, one for each of the Imperial Sugar workers killed in the explosion at the company's ...

ATLANTA Imperial Sugar, the owner of a refinery near Savannah where 13 workers died in a sugar dust explosion in February, knew of safety hazards at the plant as early as 2002 but did nothing, and ...

The privately held Florida agribusiness U.S. Sugar will purchase Imperial Sugar, the Sugar Land, Texas-based company that owns and operates the Port Wentworth sugar refinery that's served as a staple ...