New Video Depicts Deadly Imperial Sugar Refinery Explosion

The Chemical Safety Board Wednesday released a nine-minute safety video on the combustible dust explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth which claimed the lives of 14 workers, injured 36, and caused extensive property damage on Feb. 7, 2008.The video, “Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar,” includes a four-minute 3-D computer animation depicting the first explosion – known as a “primary event” – that likely occurred inside a recently enclosed sugar conveyor, which was followed by massive secondary dust explosions that destroyed the pla...