Firefighters from 11 departments fought a silo fire and subsequent dust explosion for almost 12 hours October 13. Two ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of a deadly explosion at North Vancouver's Burrard Terminals. A worker was taking a ...

Following the dust explosion in Fremont that left one man and two children dead, First Alert 6 spoke with a fire safety expert to explain how that can happen.

Anyone with dust and pollen allergies who has stepped outside recently can tell the harvest is underway. Farmers are bringing in thousands of acres of crops with some closing in on completion and ...

Speaking with workers injured in a dust explosion last December at a Chinese factory where Apple products are manufactured, NPR uncovers the careless way these companies dealt with the problem. Dust ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. - Volatile dust was blamed Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and crews pulled four bodies from tunnels beneath the mangled mass of metal and beams left by the ...

Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005. An ...

The deadly wood dust explosion and fire at a Nebraska pellet plant was a “terrible tragedy” made more so by findings that at least one of the three fatalities was alive and trapped in the rubble after ...

Combustible dusts are solids finely ground into fine particles, fibers, chips, chunks or flakes that can cause a fire or explosion when suspended in air under certain conditions. Types of dusts ...