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Investigation
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Recipient
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Record Number
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Recommendation Text
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US Ink Fire
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New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
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2013-01-I-NJ-4
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Develop and implement training for local code officials on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards referenced in the New Jersey adoption of the International Building Code (IBC) for occupancies with a high hazard classification (Group H); specifically, include training on equipment that handles combustible dust and the hazards involved.
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US Ink/Sun Chemical Corporation
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2013-01-I-NJ-7
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Revise the Capital Appropriations/Asset Request (CAR) form procedure for new installations and modifications to existing equipment to require at a minimum the following:
- Process hazard analysis (PHA)
- Management of change (MOC)
- Review of engineering drawings for permits
- Safety management of contractors
- Training of plant operators based on applicable dust collection system guidelines and standards, including NFPA 91 and NFPA 654.
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Hoeganaes Corporation Fatal Flash Fires
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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2011-4-I-TN-3
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Revise the Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program (NEP) to add industry codes for facilities that generate metal dusts (e.g., North American Industrial Classification System, NAICS, code 331111 Iron and Steel Mills, and other applicable codes not currently listed). Send notification letters to all facilities nationwide under these codes to inform them of the
hazards of combustible metal dusts and NEP coverage.
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Tennessee Division of Occupational Safety and Health (TOSHA)
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2011-4-I-TN-5
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Revise the state-adopted Dust National Emphasis Program (NEP) to add industry codes for facilities that generate metal dusts (e.g., North American Industrial Classification System, NAICS, code 331111 Iron and Steel Mills, and other applicable codes not currently listed). Send notification letters to all facilities statewide under these codes to inform them of the
hazards of combustible metal dusts and NEP coverage.
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City of Gallatin, TN
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2011-4-I-TN-11
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Require all facilities covered by IFC Chapter 13 (2006 edition) to conform to NFPA standards for combustible dusts including NFPA 484.
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City of Gallatin, TN Fire Department
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2011-4-I-TN-13
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Implement a program to ensure that fire inspectors and response personnel are trained to recognize and address combustible dust hazards.
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Imperial Sugar Company Explosion and Fire
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Imperial Sugar Company
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2008-05-I-GA-1
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Apply the following standards to the design and operation of the new Port Wentworth facility:
- NFPA 61: Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Dust Explosions in Agricultural and Food Processing Facilities
- NFPA 499: Recommended Practice for the Classification of Combustible Dusts and Hazardous (Classified) Locations for Electrical Installations in Chemical Process Areas.
- NFPA 654:Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids.
- NFPA Handbook, Electrical Installations in Hazardous Locations.
- NFPA 70 Article 500:Hazardous (Classified) Locations.
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2008-05-I-GA-3
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Implement a corporate-wide comprehensive housekeeping program to control combustible dust accumulation that will ensure sugar dust, cornstarch dust, or other combustible dust does not accumulate to hazardous quantities on overhead horizontal surfaces, packing equipment, and floors.
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2008-05-I-GA-4
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Develop training materials that address combustible dust hazards and train all employees and contractors at all Imperial Sugar Company facilities. Require periodic (e.g., annual) refresher training for all employees and contractors.
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AIB International
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2008-05-I-GA-6
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Incorporate combustible dust hazard awareness into employee and member companies’ training programs, such as the Safety and Health Management Systems training course. Include combustible dust characteristics, especially ignition energy and minimum explosible concentration; best practices for minimizing dust accumulation, especially on elevated surfaces; and safe housekeeping practices.
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2008-05-I-GA-7
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Add specific combustible dust inspection requirements and metrics to the Food Contact Packaging Facility audit procedures.
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American Bakers Association
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2008-05-I-GA-8
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Actively promote improvements in combustible dust hazard awareness and control throughout the wholesale baking industry by publishing bulletins or safety guidance that address combustible dust characteristics including ignition energy, minimum explosible concentration, best practices for minimizing dust accumulation, and safe housekeeping practices.
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Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS)
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2008-05-I-GA-9
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Require member companies to:
- Develop and implement combustible dust hazard awareness training for all facility audit personnel, and
- Incorporate combustible dust hazard identification in the audit protocols.
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Zurich Services Corporation
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2008-05-I-GA-10
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Ensure that all risk engineers are trained in the hazards of combustible dust, and that refresher training occurs at regular intervals. Provide a copy of your combustible dust hazard awareness training materials to your clients who deal with combustible dust.
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Combustible Dust Hazard Investigation
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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2006-1-H-2
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Revise the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) (1910.1200) to: - Clarify that the HCS covers combustible dusts, including those materials that may reasonably be anticipated to generate combustible dusts through downstream processing or handling. - Require Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) to include the hazards and physical properties of combustible dusts, as well as clear information on safe handling practices and references to relevant consensus standards.
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2006-1-H-3
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Communicate to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) the need to amend the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) to address combustible dust hazards by: - defining combustible dusts, - specifying the hazards that must be addressed in chemical information sheets, and - addressing the physical properties that must be included on a chemical information sheet pertinent to combustible dusts.
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2006-1-H-4
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Provide training through the OSHA Training Institute (OTI) on recognizing and preventing combustible dust explosions.
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2006-1-H-5
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While a standard is being developed, identify manufacturing industries at risk and develop and implement a national Special Emphasis Program (SEP) on combustible dust hazards in general industry. Include in the SEP an outreach program focused on the information in the Safety and Health Information Bulletin (SHIB), Combustible Dust in Industry: Preventing and Mitigating the Effects of Fire and Explosions.
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American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
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2006-1-H-6
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Modify ANSI Z400.1 American National Standard for Hazardous Industrial Chemicals--Material Safety Data Sheets to recommend that MSDSs include information on: - combustible dust hazards, safe handling practices, and references to relevant fire codes in MSDS; - hazard information about the by-products of materials that may generate combustible dusts due to processing or handling; - identification of combustible dust hazards and selection of physical properties to include in MSDS.
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West Pharmaceutical Services Dust Explosion and Fire
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West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
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2003-07-I-NC-3
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Identify West manufacturing facilities that use combustible dusts. Ensure that they incorporate applicable safety precautions described in NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions From the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids. In particular: Ensure that penetrations of partitions, floors, walls, and ceilings are sealed dust-tight. Ensure that spaces inaccessible to housekeeping are sealed to prevent dust accumulation.
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2003-07-I-NC-4
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Improve hazard communication programs so that the hazards of combustible dust are clearly identified and communicated to the workforce. In particular, ensure that the most current MSDSs are in use and that employees receive training on the revised/updated information.
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North Carolina Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Division (NCOSHA)
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2003-07-I-NC-6
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Identify the manufacturing industries at risk for combustible dust explosions, and develop and conduct an outreach program on combustible dust hazards.
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North Carolina Building Code Council
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2003-07-I-NC-7
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Amend Chapter 13, Section 1304, of the International Fire Code (as adopted by the North Carolina Fire Code) to make compliance with NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions From the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids, mandatory.
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North Carolina Code Officials Qualification Board
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2003-07-I-NC-8
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Incorporate the provisions of NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions From the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids, into the training program for State and local building and fire code officials.
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CTA Acoustics Dust Explosion and Fire
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CTA Acoustics, Inc.
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2003-09-I-KY-1
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Develop a combustible dust safety program using good practice guidelines, such as NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids. At a minimum: Minimize surfaces where combustible dust could accumulate in the design or modification of the plant.
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2003-09-I-KY-2
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Develop a combustible dust safety program using good practice guidelines, such as NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids. At a minimum: Ensure phenolic resin-handling facilities are designed to prevent the spread of fires or explosions involving combustible dust. Options include measures such as the use of firewalls and blast-resistant construction.
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2003-09-I-KY-3
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Develop a combustible dust safety program using good practice guidelines, such as NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids. At a minimum: Prevent the unsafe accumulation and dispersion of combustible dust by frequently cleaning process areas, including locations above production lines.
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2003-09-I-KY-4
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Develop a combustible dust safety program using good practice guidelines, such as NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids. At a minimum: Minimize the dispersion of combustible dust by using appropriate dust-cleaning methods and tools.
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2003-09-I-KY-5
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Develop a combustible dust safety program using good practice guidelines, such as NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids. At a minimum: Address the dangers of combustible dust and the prevention of dust explosions in the hazard communication training program.
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CertainTeed Corporation
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2003-09-I-KY-9
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Evaluate your facilities that handle combustible dusts and ensure that good practice guidelines such as NFPA 654 are followed.
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2003-09-I-KY-10
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Ensure that company design standard's applicable to facilities that handle combustible dust's incorporate good engineering practices to prevent dust explosions, such as NFPA 654.
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Borden Chemical, Inc.
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2003-09-I-KY-11
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Ensure MSDSs for phenolic resins include, at a minimum, warnings that dust from these products can be explosive.
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2003-09-I-KY-12
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Develop and distribute educational material, in addition to MSDSs, to inform customers of the explosion hazard of phenolic resin dust.
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Kentucky Office of Occupational Safety and Health
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2003-09-I-KY-14
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Develop and distribute an educational bulletin on the prevention of combustible dust explosions.
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2003-09-I-KY-15
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Enhance the training program for compliance officers regarding the recognition and prevention of combustible dust explosion hazards.
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FM Global
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2003-09-I-KY-16
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Incorporate the findings and recommendations of this report in your training of employees who conduct inspections at facilities that may handle combustible dusts.
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Kentucky Office of Housing, Buildings, and Construction
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2003-09-I-KY-17
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Incorporate the findings and recommendations of this report in your continuing training of inspectors, plan reviewers, technical advisors, and fire marshal general inspectors who interface with facilities that may handle combustible dusts.
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2003-09-I-KY-18
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Identify sites that handle combustible dusts when facilities apply for new or modified construction permits, and use this information to help prioritize establishments that will be inspected by the fire marshal.
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American Chemistry Council
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2003-09-I-KY-19
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Communicate the findings and recommendations of this report to your membership. Emphasize that dusts from phenolic resins can explode.
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Hayes Lemmerz Dust Explosions and Fire
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Hayes-Lemmerz International-Huntington, Indiana
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2004-1-I-IN-1
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Develop and implement a means of handling and processing aluminum chips that minimizes the risk of dust explosions. Refer to: 1. The Aluminum Association Pamphlet F-1, Guidelines for Handling Aluminum Fines Generated During Various Aluminum Fabricating Operations. 2. NFPA 484, Standard for Combustible Metals, Metal Powders, and Metal Dusts.
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2004-1-I-IN-2
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Implement a program to provide regular training for all facility employees on the fire and explosion hazards of aluminum dust.
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2004-1-I-IN-4
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Implement a program to conduct management reviews of incidents and near-miss incidents, including duct fires and dust flashes. Apply this program to all plant areas, including support areas such as chip processing. Address the root causes of the incidents and near-misses and implement and track corrective measures.
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Hayes-Lemmerz International
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2004-1-I-IN-6
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Conduct regular audits of all North American facilities that produce, process, or handle aluminum chips or dust, in light of the findings of this report. Emphasize engineering, hazard, and MOC reviews and compliance with NFPA-484. Ensure that: audits are documented and contain findings and recommendations, audit findings are shared with the work force at the facility, and audit recommendations are tracked and implemented.
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Premelt Systems
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2004-1-I-IN-8
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Communicate the findings and recommendations of this investigation to owners/operators of facilities to which Premelt supplies similar aluminum chip-melting systems. Include in your communication specific information that the chip drying process liberates small particles of aluminum, and that such particles may be explosive.
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Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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2004-1-I-IN-9
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Develop and distribute an educational bulletin on the prevention of metal dust explosions.
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Indiana Department of Homeland Security
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2004-1-I-IN-10
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Provide training for fire inspectors in Indiana jurisdictions on the recognition and prevention of aluminum dust explosion hazards.
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Fire Protection Research Foundation
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2004-1-I-IN-11
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Conduct research into the feasibility and design of improved explosion protection for aluminum dust collector applications, including explosion venting, isolation and suppression systems. Coordinate this research activity with the Aluminum Association, Inc.
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Aluminum Association, Inc.
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2004-1-I-IN-12
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Conduct research into the feasibility and design of improved explosion protection for aluminum dust collector applications, including explosion venting, isolation and suppression systems. Coordinate this research activity with the Fire Protection Research Foundation.
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