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Aug 6, 2013

Still Have Doubts Combustible Dust is Primarily a Fire Problem? Combustible dust exposure: lessons learned

Still Have Doubts Combustible Dust is Primarily a Fire Problem?
All these catastrophic ComDust related incidents resulting in fire-fighter injuries and fatalities began as a Level One (fire) and escalated into a Level Three (primary explosion). 
Use the HAL Chart to minimize severity of consequence.


Combustible dust exposure: lessons learned 
Firefighting operations can inadvertently increase the chance of a combustible dust explosion if they: Use tactics that cause dust clouds to form or reach the explosible range; use tactics that introduce air, creating an explosible atmosphere;...