The annual summary recording nationwide grain dust bin explosions reported nine incidents in 2022. This compares to seven reported incidents in 2021 and a 10-year average of 7.8 explosions annually.

In some cases, dust can be deadly, and not just to your home. Industrial-scale combustible dust has been responsible for firestorms and explosions in American factories.

Dust did release from the grain bin to create bursts of flame but not explosions, Harvey said. “There’s some pretty dramatic photos, and that’s the dust burning,” Harvey said.

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A saw dust explosion occurred Monday morning, March 3, just before 9 a.m. at Mark Richey Woodworking, an award-winning woodworking company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

ESTILL SPRINGS, Tenn. -- One person is burned in a fire at a Tyson facility in Franklin County. The fire occurred Friday as a grain truck unloaded, triggering a 'dust explosion' under the truck ...

Investigators have determined the explosion and fires at the Dicastal Inc. facility on March 17 in Greenville, Michigan, were caused by sparks from a hand grinder that ignited aluminum dust ...

Beijing — At least eight people were killed in a factory explosion in eastern China's Jiangsu province early Saturday morning, state media reported. The blast occurred at 3:38 a.m. local time ...

A late-night dust explosion at KAAPA Partners Aurora, LLC prompted a multi-agency response Tuesday, according to officials.

FARGO — A reported natural gas explosion at a Fargo food processing plant was found to be a dust explosion inside a storage bin, the Fargo Fire Department said in a Wednesday, May 14, release ...

DENISON, Iowa (AP) -- Grain dust caused an explosion and fire that destroyed a grain elevator last week, the state fire marshal said Friday.

The Baltimore City Fire Department says the explosion and subsequent fire at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant last March is responsible for at least $10 million in damages.