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Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar

Produced by the US Chemical Safety Board

On February 7, 2008, fourteen workers were fatally burned in a series of sugar dust explosions at the Imperial Sugar plant near Savannah, Georgia. This US Chemical Safety Board safety video explains how the accident occurred.

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