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CEP: Process Safety Beacon - Dust Explosions – Clean up this Hazard

Process Safety Beacon

October

2014

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In August 2014, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) reported the results of an investigation into a December 2010 explosion in a titanium and zirconium scrap-metal processing facility in West Virginia. The explosion caused three fatalities and one injury. Here is a brief summary of what is believed to have happened.

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