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Investigation of Grain Elevator Explosions - Current Status
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... The situation with respect to current investigations has two serious faults. First, every explosion is not investigated; some are not even reported beyond the local news media, Elevator operators are required to report explosions only to OSHA and then only if a fatality occurs or there are at least five injuries requiring hospitalization.
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... Thorough interviews of the witnesses by the investigators and a detailed examination of the entire site yielded a well-documented and quite believable sequence for the initiation and subsequent spread of the explosion. The only fault the task group could find with this report was that the explosion process was not described using current explosion investigation terminology.
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