﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="/cms/includes/css/rss.css"?><!--RSS generated by CSB at Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:03:29 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:feedburner="https://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><channel><title>CSB News</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/news/</link><copyright /><generator>CSB</generator><item><title>CSB Releases Safety Video on Combustible Dust Explosions</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-safety-video-on-combustible-dust-explosions/</link><description>A New CSB Safety Video on the Fatal Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires at Didion Milling in Cambria, Wisconsin</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[A New CSB Safety Video on the Fatal Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires at Didion Milling in Cambria, Wisconsin]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>Hillary,Cohen</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB Launches Investigation into Fatal Explosion and Fire</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-launches-investigation-into-fatal-explosion-and-fire/</link><description>At Horizon Biofuels Facility in Nebraska</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[At Horizon Biofuels Facility in Nebraska]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>Hillary,Cohen</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:39:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB Releases Final Investigation Report for Fatal Dust Explosion and Fire at Didion Milling Facility in Cambria, Wisconsin</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-final-investigation-report-for-fatal-dust-explosion-and-fire-at-didion-milling-facility-in-cambria-wisconsin/</link><description>Final Didion Report </description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Final Didion Report ]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>Hillary,Cohen</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:09:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB Releases Safety Digest on 2003 West Pharmaceutical Services Combustible Dust Explosion</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-safety-digest-on-2003-west-pharmaceutical-services-combustible-dust-explosion/</link><description>January 29, 2003 incident in Kinston, NC, killed six and injured 38 others.
</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[January 29, 2003 incident in Kinston, NC, killed six and injured 38 others.
]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>Shauna,Lawhorne</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 17:59:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Danger of Combustible Dust - NYT Op-ed</title><link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/opinion/the-danger-of-combustible-dust.html</link><description>By Rafael Moure-Eraso </description><content:encoded><![CDATA[By Rafael Moure-Eraso ]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>Hillary,Cohen</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:14:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Statement from Chairperson Rafael Moure-Eraso on the Deadly Consequences of Combustible Metal Dust</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/statement-from-chairperson-rafael-moure-eraso-on-the-deadly-consequences-of-combustible-metal-dust/</link><description>Combustible Dust Accidents Continue to Occur </description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Combustible Dust Accidents Continue to Occur ]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Final Report on AL Solutions Metal Dust Explosion and Fire that Killed Three in West Virginia Leads CSB to Reemphasize Call for OSHA Combustible Dust Standard   </title><link>http://www.csb.gov/final-report-on-al-solutions-metal-dust-explosion-and-fire-that-killed-three-in-west-virginia-leads-csb-to-reemphasize-call-for-osha-combustible-dust-standard-/</link><description> CSB Releases Safety Video on Accident, “Combustible Dust: Solutions Delayed”
</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[ CSB Releases Safety Video on Accident, “Combustible Dust: Solutions Delayed”
]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>Hillary,Cohen</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. Chemical Safety Board Determines OSHA Response to Seven Open CSB Recommendations on Dust, Fuel Gas, and Process Safety Management to be “Unacceptable;”  Board Votes to Designate a Combustible Dust Standard as “Most Wanted”</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/us-chemical-safety-board-determines-osha-response-to-seven-open-csb-recommendations-on-dust-fuel-gas-and-process-safety-management-to-be-unacceptable/</link><description>U.S. Chemical Safety Board Determines OSHA Response to Seven Open CSB Recommendations on Dust, Fuel Gas, and Process Safety Management to be “Unacceptable;” Board Votes to Designate a Combustible Dust Standard as “Most Wanted”
</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[U.S. Chemical Safety Board Determines OSHA Response to Seven Open CSB Recommendations on Dust, Fuel Gas, and Process Safety Management to be “Unacceptable;” Board Votes to Designate a Combustible Dust Standard as “Most Wanted”
]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>Hillary,Cohen</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:32:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Statement of CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso  on OSHA's Proposal to Include an "Unclassified Hazards" Category in the Current Proposal to Adopt the UN's Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals   </title><link>http://www.csb.gov/statement-of-csb-chairman-rafael-moure-eraso-on-osha-s-proposal-to-include-an-unclassified-hazards-category-in-the-current-proposal-to-adopt-the-un-s-globally-harmonized-system-for-classification-and-labeling-of-chemicals/</link><description> Statement of CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso  on OSHA's Proposal to Include an "Unclassified Hazards" Category in the Current Proposal to Adopt the UN's Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals   </description><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Statement of CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso  on OSHA's Proposal to Include an "Unclassified Hazards" Category in the Current Proposal to Adopt the UN's Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals   ]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:43:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB Releases Final Investigation Report on Three Accidents at the Hoeganaes Iron Powder Facility in Gallatin, Tennessee</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-final-investigation-report-on-three-accidents-at-the-hoeganaes-iron-powder-facility-in-gallatin-tennessee/</link><description>The U.S. Chemical Safety Board today released its final report on three accidents that occurred in 2011 at the Hoeganaes powdered metals plant in Gallatin, Tennessee. Flash fires and an explosion killed a total of five workers and injured three others.</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The U.S. Chemical Safety Board today released its final report on three accidents that occurred in 2011 at the Hoeganaes powdered metals plant in Gallatin, Tennessee. Flash fires and an explosion killed a total of five workers and injured three others.]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB Releases New Safety Video, “Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar”</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-new-safety-video-inferno-dust-explosion-at-imperial-sugar/</link><description>Washington, DC, October 6, 2009 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a new nine-minute safety video on the combustible dust explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, which claimed the lives of 14 workers, injured 36, and caused extensive property damage on [...]</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington, DC, October 6, 2009 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a new nine-minute safety video on the combustible dust explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, which claimed the lives of 14 workers, injured 36, and caused extensive property damage on February 7, 2008.]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Final CSB Report on Imperial Sugar Disaster Concludes Inadequate Equipment Design, Maintenance, and Housekeeping Led to Massive Sugar Dust Explosions</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/final-csb-report-on-imperial-sugar-disaster-concludes-inadequate-equipment-design-maintenance-and-housekeeping-led-to-massive-sugar-dust-explosions/</link><description>In a final draft report released today, CSB investigators said the February 7, 2008, explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, resulted from ongoing releases of sugar from inadequately designed and maintained dust collection equipment, conveyors, and sugar handling equipme [...]</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[In a final draft report released today, CSB investigators said the February 7, 2008, explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, resulted from ongoing releases of sugar from inadequately designed and maintained dust collection equipment, conveyors, and sugar handling equipment. Inadequate housekeeping practices allowed highly combustible sugar dust and granulated sugar to build up throughout the refinery’s packing buildings, CSB investigators concluded.
]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB to Hold Public Meeting in Savannah, Georgia, September 24; Board will Consider Final Investigation Report on Fatal Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar Refinery </title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-to-hold-public-meeting-in-savannah-georgia-september-24-board-will-consider-final-investigation-report-on-fatal-dust-explosion-at-imperial-sugar-refinery/</link><description>Washington, DC, September 15, 2009 - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) announced that it will convene a public meeting on Thursday September 24, 2009, in Savannah, Georgia, to review the final CSB investigation report on the causes of the February 2008 dust explosions and fire at the Imperial Sug [...]</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington, DC, September 15, 2009 - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) announced that it will convene a public meeting on Thursday September 24, 2009, in Savannah, Georgia, to review the final CSB investigation report on the causes of the February 2008 dust explosions and fire at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia.  

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Hilton Savannah Desoto, located at 15 East Liberty Street. The meeting is free and open to the public. Members of the public, those affected by the accident, and emergency responders are encouraged to attend and to provide comments prior to the Board’s consideration of the final report.  The meeting is expected to conclude at approximately 9:00 p.m. 
]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB Releases New Safety Video,  “Combustible Dust: An Insidious Hazard” Features Three New Animations of Major Dust Accidents, Shows Need for Comprehensive Standard and Improved Safety Practices   </title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-new-safety-video-combustible-dust-an-insidious-hazard-features-three-new-animations-of-major-dust-accidents-shows-need-for-comprehensive-standard-and-improved-safety-practices/</link><description>Washington, DC, July 28, 2009 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a new safety video depicting how accumulations of combustible dust at worksites can provide the fuel for devastating explosions that kill and maim workers, shut down plants, and harm local economies.  </description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington, DC, July 28, 2009 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a new safety video depicting how accumulations of combustible dust at worksites can provide the fuel for devastating explosions that kill and maim workers, shut down plants, and harm local economies.  ]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB Chairman John Bresland Calls on OSHA to Adopt CSB Recommendation on Comprehensive Combustible Dust Standard, Says Imperial Sugar Explosion Shows "Urgency for Action Is Greater than Ever"</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-chairman-john-bresland-calls-on-osha-to-adopt-csb-recommendation-on-comprehensive-combustible-dust-standard-says-imperial-sugar-explosion-shows-urgency-for-action-is-greater-than-ever/</link><description>At a Senate hearing today, John Bresland, chairman and CEO of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), called on OSHA to act on a November 2006 CSB recommendation to adopt a comprehensive standard regulating combustible dust in the workplace. </description><content:encoded><![CDATA[At a Senate hearing today, John Bresland, chairman and CEO of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), called on OSHA to act on a November 2006 CSB recommendation to adopt a comprehensive standard regulating combustible dust in the workplace. ]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB to Hold June 22, 2005, Public Hearing on Combustible Dust Hazards in Washington, DC </title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-to-hold-june-22-2005-public-hearing-on-combustible-dust-hazards-in-washington-dc/</link><description>Washington, DC, May 5, 2005 - The CSB today announced it is convening a public hearing related to its investigation of combustible dust hazards at industrial facilities. The hearing will begin at 8:30 a.m. on June 22, 2005, in the Horizon Ballroom of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trad [...]</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington, DC, May 5, 2005 - The CSB today announced it is convening a public hearing related to its investigation of combustible dust hazards at industrial facilities. The hearing will begin at 8:30 a.m. on June 22, 2005, in the Horizon Ballroom of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Statement of CSB Investigations Manager Stephen Selk, P.E., Updating the Public on the Investigation of the Imperial Sugar Company Explosion and Fire, Savannah, Georgia</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/statement-of-csb-investigations-manager-stephen-selk-p-e-updating-the-public-on-the-investigation-of-the-imperial-sugar-company-explosion-and-fire-savannah-georgia/</link><description>Statement of CSB Investigations Manager Stephen Selk, P.E., Updating the Public on the Investigation of the Imperial Sugar Company Explosion and Fire, Savannah, Georgia</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Statement of CSB Investigations Manager Stephen Selk, P.E., Updating the Public on the Investigation of the Imperial Sugar Company Explosion and Fire, Savannah, Georgia]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Investigative Team from U.S. Chemical Safety Board Deploys to Explosion at Georgia Sugar Refinery </title><link>http://www.csb.gov/investigative-team-from-u-s-chemical-safety-board-deploys-to-explosion-at-georgia-sugar-refinery/</link><description>Washington, DC, February 8, 2008 - A six-member investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the site of last night's explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, northwest of Savannah, near the South Carolina state line. 

</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington, DC, February 8, 2008 - A six-member investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the site of last night's explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, northwest of Savannah, near the South Carolina state line. 

]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:49:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSB to Hold November 9, 2006, Public Meeting on Combustible Dust Hazard Study Findings and Proposed Recommendations in Washington, DC</title><link>http://www.csb.gov/csb-to-hold-november-9-2006-public-meeting-on-combustible-dust-hazard-study-findings-and-proposed-recommendations-in-washington-dc/</link><description>Washington, DC, October 20, 2006 - The CSB today announced it is convening a public meeting related to its investigation of combustible dust hazards at industrial facilities. The Board will be considering the findings and proposed recommendations of the draft report. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a [...]</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington, DC, October 20, 2006 - The CSB today announced it is convening a public meeting related to its investigation of combustible dust hazards at industrial facilities. The Board will be considering the findings and proposed recommendations of the draft report. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. on November 9, 2006, in the Diplomat/Consulate room of the Embassy Suites Downtown Washington, 1250 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC. 

]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Board Commends the Kentucky Office of Housing, Buildings, and Construction, Says New Combustible Dust Inspection Program "Exceeds Recommended Action" from Investigation of Fatal 2003 Explosion </title><link>http://www.csb.gov/board-commends-the-kentucky-office-of-housing-buildings-and-construction-says-new-combustible-dust-inspection-program-exceeds-recommended-action-from-investigation-of-fatal-2003-explosion/</link><description>Washington, DC, August 16, 2006 - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today formally commended the Kentucky Office of Housing, Buildings, and Construction (HBC) for exceeding the recommended action from the Board's investigation of the fatal 2003 dust explosion at CTA Acoustics in Corbin, Kentucky. [...]</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Washington, DC, August 16, 2006 - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today formally commended the Kentucky Office of Housing, Buildings, and Construction (HBC) for exceeding the recommended action from the Board's investigation of the fatal 2003 dust explosion at CTA Acoustics in Corbin, Kentucky. ]]></content:encoded><dc:creator>AmericanEagle.com,Admin User</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>