Tech Talk 10: Combustible dusts

Risk advisory | August 2018

In the past decade, there have been several large property losses at industrial plants caused by combustible dust explosions. While combustible dust explosions have been commonly associated with occupancies such as grain elevators, some of the more recent losses have involved dusts which many people did not know were explosive, such as sugar, metal and plastic dusts.

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