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21 Jun 09

OSHA Focuses on Combustible Dust Hazards in AL, FL, GA, and MS-GRAINNET News

Inspection and Enforcement activity with the OSHA Dust NEP. What about the four other states in OSHA Region IV? Which includes Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee with approved State Occupational Safety and Health Plans? These states are not required to adopt the OSHA Dust NEP.

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OSHA Region IV OSHA Dust NEP inspection enforcement

26 visits to Alabama companies
made 37 visits to Florida companies
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- 32 visits to Georgia companies
- nine visits to Mississippi companies
- The result has been 67 citations for workplace safety and health violations, with 88 percent categorized as willful, serious, repeat or failure to abate.
  - What about the other four states in OSHA Region IV that are State OSHA Plan states? State OSHA plan states are not required to adopt the OSHA Dust NEP? - on 2009-06-21
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- Nationally, 3,662 violations have been identified during 813 inspections.
  - 813 combustible dust emphasis inspections out of the tens of thousands of manufacturing and non-manufacturing facilities in the United States.
    
    Last year OSHA sent out letters to over 30,000 facilities that generate combustible dust from combustible particulate solids. Currently there is over 100,000 facilities in national industries (NAICS) that have combustible dust hazards. Is your facility at risk? Not receiving a letter does not mean a free pass.
    
    If your facility generates combustible dust, then now is the time to conduct a hazard analysis so as to assess, evaluate, and control the hazard. - on 2009-06-21
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- Dust fires and explosions can pose significant dangers in the workplace and can occur when five different factors are present.
  - Over 30% of the dust explosions in 2008 had prior fires which fire departments had previously responded to. Additionally, last year, 80% of combustible dust incidents were solely fires. Combustible dust related fires are the precursors of eventual dust explosions - on 2009-06-21
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