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;...