Report of important dust explosions
Subtitle: a record of dust explosions in the United States and Canada since 1860.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: National Fire Protection Association, International
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: 23,5cmx15,9cm
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Dust explosions.
First sentence: Since 1900, reports of 1.085 dust explosions in the United States have been received by the Fire Record Department of the National Fire Protection Agency. In these explosions 460 were killed, 1,712 were injured and property damage totalling $97,811,678 was suffered.
Description: Dust of practically all combustible materials can produce violent explosions if the particals are suspended in air in certain variable concentrations and ignited. Summaries of explosions of the more commons dusts will be found on pages 1 - 29 of this book and a tabulation of causes, casualties and property damage for all dust explosions since 1860 reported to the NFPA will be found on pages 30 - 79.