Inferno! Catastrophic Sugar Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar
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Food KILLS!
Great Boston Molasses Flood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Better remove regulations, they just get in the way of profits. Blowing up a few employees is an acceptable loss.
Should cross post this to r/attorneytom seems right up his alley
Damn that’s intense
That was really informative.
For those who don’t know, dust (aka airborne particles) is almost universally *bad.* Just how bad varies by material, but ceramic dust can cause permanent damage to your lungs and even, in some cases, cancer (e.g. asbestos); and organic dust of materials that normally aren’t thought of as “flammable” (e.g. sugar, corn) can be highly explosive.
This is because the reaction rate of the material with oxygen is normally limited by how quickly oxygen is able to get to the fuel once the reaction penetrates the surface, but when the fuel is made up of tiny airborne particles, that limit no longer applies. It has all the oxygen it needs on every surface.
In short: dust bad.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s (CSB) has a really great youtube channel about different industrial accidents. Surprisingly high production value and highly detailed 3D reconstructions: https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB/videos
The USCSB has a hidden gem of a Youtube channel.
dont want any of that near my skin thanks
Those damn Midnight Society kids…they went too far to tell a story
Very interesting. I used to live about a mile or so from where that happened and I remember hearing and feeling the massive explosion, made the whole house shake. Had no idea what it was until I heard about it on the news the following day.
Shout out to Sheldon Smith, the dulcet voice of disaster investigation videos.
I thought we were blessed with 2 USCSB videos in one month… Great one though.
I upvote the CSB every time i see it.
The CSB makes great videos of unfortunate events. And the importance of their existence is particularly showcased in this video. This factory wasn’t making hydrofluoric acid or gasoline. It was processing sugar.
How did they not have a rat and roach infestation?
That damn Van Der Linde gang must of got shipwrecked again.