Completed Investigations

Location: Cambria, WI
Final Report Released On: 12/06/2023

On May 31, 2017, combustible dust explosions at the Didion Milling facility in Cambria, Wisconsin, killed five of the 19 employees working on the night of the incident. The other 14 were injur...
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Location: East Rutherford , NJ
Final Report Released On: 01/15/2015
Company: US Ink
An explosion and fire injured 7 workers at the US Ink facility. ...
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Location: New Cumberland, WV
Final Report Released On: 07/16/2014
Company: AL Solutions

An explosion ripped through the New Cumberland A.L. Solutions titanium plant in West Virginia on December 9, 2010, fatally injuring three workers. The workers were processing titanium powder, ...
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Location: Gallatin, TN
Final Report Released On: 01/05/2012
Company: Hoeganaes Corporation
Three combustible dust incidents over a six month period occurred at the Hoeganaes facility in Gallatin, TN, resulting in fatal injuries to five workers. The facility produces powdered iron and i...
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Location: Port Wentworth, GA
Final Report Released On: 09/24/2009
Company: Imperial Sugar Company
On February 7, 2008, a huge explosion and fire occurred at the Imperial Sugar refinery northwest of Savannah, Georgia, causing 14 deaths and injuring 38 others, including 14 with serious and life...
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Location: Washington, DC
Final Report Released On: 11/09/2006
In 2003, the CSB launched investigations of three major industrial explosions involving combustible powders. These explosions - in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Indiana - cost 14 lives and caused...
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Location: Huntington, IN
Final Report Released On: 09/27/2005
Company: Hayes Lemmerz
On the evening of October 29, 2003, a series of explosions severely burned two workers, injured a third, and caused property damage to the Hayes Lemmerz manufacturing plant in Huntington, Indiana...
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