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“On February 7 2008, The Imperial Sugar Refinery in Georgia, over run with sugar dust, would catch on fire…”
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:58 The Refinery
04:30 The Disaster
07:13 Investigation
09:37 Aftermath
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3:38 Video production error? Text saying 1280×720 instead of a picture of a bag of sugar, and no one else has mentioned it from the quick scroll down I did so thought I'd comment on it.
holy F—-, 15 min of pure hell fire. I can not imagine (and don't wont to) being at ground zero. Management is always management, you may not understand what I mean but some of you will and that is good enough. TLDR. you don't need experience to manage a job, everything can be reduced to a spreadsheet. The greatest evil this and other countries has ever is the mass-produced manager with no hands on experience. There are several of you thinking that you do a great job having never once actually done the job. you are wrong. sure you can mostly understand and grasp the job needs but you are lacking, and your denial says so. But there is hope all that you need to do is several pounds of sweat doing the job on a regular schedule. I have done enough preaching for today.
Merci.
Is it just me or does anyone else hear “DMD” or “XTD” in the outro??
I'd actually just moved to Savannah a couple of months before this happened. I didn't hear the explosion (the site isn't close to town) but every emergency vehicle was screaming through the streets. It was a pretty huge deal down here.
This would be illegal under EU law.
Ah, this incident. My job has yearly dust prevention and control training that points to the Imperial sugar plant as an example of what to avoid happening.
Sugar is more evil than most people know. "The Sugar Wars" was a morbid read about corporate greed being put forward, knowingly at the expense of humanity. 😒
Follow the money, all will be revealed.
The cause of the explosion was put down to a bearing overheating.
The three large storage silos discharged onto a OPEN conveyor, it a large clump of sugar fell out it would push the other sugar off. .
Someone decided to enclose the conveyor and this allowed a build up of dust inside and more importantly NO ONE could see eny problems with the conveyor. The first explosion made all the dust dislodge causing a second bigger explosion…
3:38 think you forgot something
I've been to this factory several times to pick up sugar.
I remember this. I grew up in Georgia and I remember sugar was very hard to get for about a year afterwards and was really expensive when it could be found at the grocery store. I was too young to know any details, other than that the refinery had exploded so this was interesting to hear.
do the Mexico gas line rupture that all the mexicans were going to to get free gas then it caught fire!
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Thank you for covering this small piece of history from my home city. Not many people know about it. I remember learning bout it in 5th grade, as I hadnt lived there when it happened. But thank you for sharing this tragic story.
10 because the day it exploded I was on the way in my semi truck to pick up a load of sugar. It was still burning when I arrived couldn't get very close though.
They would have been low paid workers as well.I hate capitalism!
excellant …love your stuff on reactors as well…bro in law werked at both chaulk river and fermie….i now see he was full of shit when talking about how safe it is
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Well done, Schmucks…saved a lot of time and money there, didn't ya!
I was a mile away. We thought we got nuked.
Dang, I imagine that a sugar dust explosion is quite a bit more energetic than a flour dust explosion
I mean all for profit companies prioritize profit, and they always will. The only reason some appear not to is because it is more profitable to prioritize safety sometimes, especially if an outside institution is monitoring you
Did you get diameter and circumference confused on the silo or were they really fatter than they were tall?
I work in a cherry warehouse in the summer times. I don't understand how some warehouses / work places stay so dirty. The amount we have to clean the machines is strict.
And that's how caramel was discovered. The end
What happened to the CEO who was there when that happened, you would think if you survived that you would change policy
So usual US work safety ethics….
Sweet documentary
you know that white dot, yes i know it's a man, that white dot at the bottom of your video it's distracting
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Hello London! Cheers from NC.
I wonder at what point is profit over people's safety considered criminal behavior….
Keep all reports of problems on site, near the problem areas, to help ensure the evidence is destroyed should a disaster occur. Of course, keep evidence against personnel off-site so it's always available when someone needs fired.
At the start you said 14 died. Then you said 8 died on site, 4 more later in hospital (12) then you said 15 died?
* says the scale is 1-10 *
* shows picture of a 0-9 scale *
Ignoring the safety rules in the name of boosting productivity isn't just in factories. I worked at CVS for a short time as a supervisor. I was literally told by the store manager multiple times that I wasn't allowed to stop and clean up rotting food in the back storage room, or that I wasn't allowed to spend the time to check all food and medication items on the store shelves (this includes baby food) for expired items. All because there were other things that corporate required us to get done every day, that did not need to get done every day. I don't need to count how many tampons we have 5 fucking times a week. Eventually, after I hurt my back at work after being told I was not allowed to sit down under any circumstances, my manager told me she was thinking she needed to fire me and find someone else because I was "too slow" (when I could hardly move due to a back injury that I received at work, and then had to continue working for two more shifts after the injury because I was told I was not allowed to call off). Greedy companies must be kept in check.
Its Georgia. No surprise. Safety last? Safety never.
Yep may have been built well but Maint is always cut short as production takes precedence over safety. Over time systems break down and are run into the ground. Money as always the issue. Rather put profits into country club membership than safety and efficiency of factory making you the money
The neo-nazis wanted deregulation and the neo-nazis got deregulation – so what's the prob?
I worked at a sugar plant and they used this disaster as an example of how dangerous it can be
I would rate this video as "Balls"
Its astonishing how companies will chase that short term profits while ignoring safety. At the same time they're willing to lose their ass financially to inevitably pay settlements/fines and rebuilding costs.
Did the company pass government inspections?
Hard to believe they could throw safety away for decade after decade and never be caught. Additionally, where were the whistle blowing employees decade after decade?
Seems your contention that this all boiled down to profit over safety is bending the facts to support your agenda of evil capitalism.
That’s how it looks to me, been wrong before…
I remember this one from the CSB videos
A portion of the Federal team that conducted the inspection came to my state and did a class on Combustible Dusts for our state OSHA program. Their observations were very interested. Grain, some types of insulation, anhydrous ammonia (yep), toilet paper, and a slew of other materials can go boom. In some cases, it is materials with lots of carbon in the structure. With the ammonia, it is the nitrogen chemical bond. Remember Oklahoma City? Anyone who rants about too many regulations for business should conduct an explosion inspection especially when there are fatalities. I don't keep up with the annual number of workplace deaths, but I think it is still well north of 4,000.
Ugh, exaggerated use of tonal inflection like this is irritating to the point of being even worse to endure than a monotone narrator droning-on.