The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Coomes Oil & Supply Inc., doing business as the 5th Wheel BP gas station in St. Augustine, and Florida Rock & Tank Lines Inc. for safety hazards after an employee of the latter company was burned in an explosion at the station in August.
A grand jury convened in Coos County, N.H., has indicted Craig Sanborn, owner of gunpowder manufacturer Black Mag LLC, for manslaughter and negligent homicide as a result of a deadly 2010 explosion that took the lives of two workers at the company's Colebrook, N.H., worksite.
“Iron in the Fire” features animations, key findings and dust hazard recommendations
January 6, 2012
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) yesterday released a new safety video depicting three accidents involving combustible iron dust at the Hoeganaes Corporation in Gallatin, Tennessee.
Board issues recommendations for improving safety and security at sites
October 27, 2011
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a new study of explosions at oil and gas production sites across the U.S., identifying 26 incidents since 1983 that killed 44 members of the public and injured 25 others under the age of 25.
A investigaton by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found that systemic deficiencies led to a chemistry laboratory explosion at Texas Tech University in January of 2010 that seriously injured a graduate student.
Standard comes in response to Kleen Energy explosion in 2010
September 28, 2011
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) announced today the release of NFPA 56 (PS), Standard for Fire and Explosion Prevention During Cleaning and Purging of Flammable Gas Piping Systems, 2012 Edition, which prohibits the use of flammable gas as a cleaning agent for cleaning the interior of pipes
The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is praising Connecticut for enacting legislation that will permanently ban the practice of using flammable gases to clean fuel gas piping during power plant construction.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has publicly expressed its agreement with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) that Florida’s failure to adopt worker safeguards in the wake of a deadly methanol fire and explosion is “unacceptable.”