Explosion at Flour Mill Exposes Lack of Combustible Dust Safety Standards

An explosion this weekend, at Statesville, N.C.’s, Bartlett Milling Company resulted in serious injury for one man, and serves as a reminder that incidents like this could be entirely preventable, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health said.

Although no one was killed in last Sunday’s explosion, it was not the first safety violation for the flour and animal feed