Seven dust-fueled explosions caused 10 injuries and four fatalities in 2025, according to a Purdue University report. That represents a drop in incidents from the prior year, but an increase in ...

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,” ...

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The deadly wood dust explosion and fire at a Nebraska pellet plant was a “terrible tragedy” made more so by findings that at least one of the three fatalities was alive and trapped in the rubble after ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An annual report from Purdue University found there were seven grain dust explosions in the United States in 2025. While that is lower than the nine reported the previous year, ...

FREMONT, Neb. — OSHA has cited Horizon Biofuels Inc. for willful and serious safety violations after a deadly explosion at the company’s Fremont facility in July 2025. OSHA cited Horizon Biofuels for ...

Facility owners and operators handling potentially combustible dust were required to complete a Dust Hazards Analysis (DHA) by September 7, 2020 — five years after the effective date of the first ...