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OSHA Unwraps Combustible Dust Topics Page

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OSHA told the world yesterday about its new Combustible Dust Safety and Health Topics page, www.osha.gov/dsg/combustibledust/index.html, yesterday and noted that it contains a link to the agency's ongoing National Emphasis Program on Combustible Dust. Various stakeholders have pushed for action after the latest disaster suspected of being started by a dust explosion, the Port Wentworth, Ga. Imperial Sugar plant blast and fire last month. As of yesterday, three burn patients were in serious condition and eight others were in critical condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, recovering from burns suffered in the incident. Five patients originally admitted to the center have been discharged and four have died.

Today, former U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Chairman Carolyn Merritt co-wrote an op-ed column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution castigating OSHA and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao for failing to enact a combustible dust standard as CSB requested in 2006.

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