VANCOUVER - Anxiety is building in B.C. forestry towns over the bone-dry dust of pine beetle-killed wood that's been piling up in hard-to-reach corners of sawmills. After two fatal explosions since ...

Last month, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the Humboldt Sawmill Company for five violations ...

FREMONT, Neb. (WOWT) - The independent federal board investigating July’s fatal explosion at Horizon Biofuels released an updated report on Wednesday. “This terrible tragedy should not have happened,” ...

FREMONT, Neb. — Wood dust is the likely cause of a July 29 explosion at a pellet plant in Fremont, Nebraska. The July 29 blast killed three people, including a male employee and his two daughters, ...

STARTS WITH BREAKING NEWS. THAT BREAKING NEWS. THE NEBRASKA STATE FIRE MARSHAL BELIEVES A DUST FIRE MAY HAVE CAUSED THE FREMONT PLANT EXPLOSION. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M JULIE CORNELL, AND I’M ROB ...

To the average person, walking into a flour- or sawmill and seeing dust swirling around is unlikely to evoke much of a response, but those in the know are quite likely to bolt for the nearest exit at ...

State regulators visited a Fremont wood pellet plant in February, finding a potentially faulty dust collection system had allowed sawdust to waft from the facility five months before state fire ...