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Fatal Georgia Blast Blows Up OSHA Dust Rules: Cindy Skrzycki
www.bloomberg.com Sometimes a safety issue literally blows up in the face of U.S. regulators. That was the case last month when an explosion and fire at an Imperial Sugar Co. refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, likely caused by the ignition of sugar dust, killed 13 workers and left 10 others with serious burns.
The Feb. 7 accident was the latest of some 300 since 1980 that have killed more than 100 workers and injured 800 more. The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration, which is responsible for regulating the hazard, ignored a recommendation to create a single dust-control rule, saying it already has 17 regulations telling employers how to avoid a deadly buildup of dust.
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