A grain dust explosion rocked a grain elevator at Lamar Avenue and Airways Boulevard in Memphis, January 27, 1955.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The number of grain dust explosions in the United States fell to a 10-year low in 2016, but two of the incidents resulted in the first reported fatalities since 2013, according ...

Around 6:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve in 2022, flames ripped through the bowels of an industrial facility in Fremont, Nebraska. Elevators were scorched. Conveyor belts collapsed. Metal doors melted. As ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Family members of four people killed in a grain elevator explosion last year in northeast Kansas are suing employees of Bartlett Grain Co., including its current president Bob ...

STARTS WITH BREAKING NEWS. THAT BREAKING NEWS. THE NEBRASKA STATE FIRE MARSHAL BELIEVES A DUST FIRE MAY HAVE CAUSED THE FREMONT PLANT EXPLOSION. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M JULIE CORNELL, AND I’M ROB ...

Dust explosions represent a persistent hazard in various industrial settings, occurring when suspended particulates, such as metallic, coal, or organic dust, rapidly combust in a confined environment.

FREMONT — The Tuesday explosion at a wood pellet manufacturing plant in Fremont that killed a worker and two young girls is believed to have been caused by a dust fire, the Nebraska fire marshal said ...

Dust explosions represent a critical hazard across numerous industries, with dynamics governed by factors such as particle size, moisture content, concentration, and inherent material properties. The ...

State regulators visited a Fremont wood pellet plant in February, finding a potentially faulty dust collection system had allowed sawdust to waft from the facility five months before state fire ...

Oct. 3, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest and deadliest industrial accidents in Metro Vancouver history. On Oct. 3, 1975, a fire and two explosions at the Burrard Grain Terminals ...