What’s at Stake?

A combustible dust is any fine material that can catch fire and explode when mixed with air. The force from combustible dust explosions can cause multiple deaths, horrific injuries, and massive destruction of property.

What’s the Danger?

Any combustible material can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. Combustible dusts can come from: sugar, spice, starch, and flour; grain, feed, and tobacco; plastics and rubber; wood, paper, and pulp; pesticides, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and coal, and metals. If such a dust is suspended in air in the right concentration, under certain conditions, it has the potential to explode. These conditions are […]