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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Fed official: Lack of 'housekeeping' to blame for refinery blast

Simple housekeeping of industrial dust could have prevented the deadly explosion at a sugar refinery near Savannah--that from the head of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. The official says "snow-like accumulations" of dust built up at the Port Wentworth plant, leading to the February 7th explosion that killed 12 people and injured dozens more.

The official says factors that led to this accident fit in line with a pattern of similar incidents in recent years--all of which were preventable.

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