Investigation of 200 dust explosions and fires , between 1980 to 2005 , indicated '' approximately 100 fatalities and 600 injuries . '' In January 2003 , a polyethylene powder explosion and fire at the West Pharmaceutical Services plant in Kinston , North Carolina resulted in the deaths of six workers and injuries to 38 others . In February 2008 an explosion of sugar dust rocked the Imperial Sugar Company 's plant at Port Wentworth , Georgia , resulting in thirteen deaths
explosion of sugar dust
2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion
Combustibility and flammability