The Imperial Sugar Co. in Savannah, Georgia knew about the explosive dust they had on their site. But last year in Feb. 7, 2008, the refinery experienced a disaster, in which those explosive dusts ignited into dust-fueled fireballs, and ended up killing 14 workers and injured 36, several with horrific second- and third-degree burns. The problem with this is, in a report Thursday 9/24/09, they found "warning" labels at the site informing them of these explosive dust hazards, and memos from the 1960's, and the managers and workers of this refinery ignored them! They even experienced small fires and didn't even bother to check that out. One would think maybe the managers by then would have taken at least a glance at what could be causing those little fires to be started, but no. What really ticks me off is that all those innocent people could have never had this happen to them if they had payed more attention and had weekly, or just even monthly check ups of their supplies and resources to see if they are safe, even their equipments. People can be so careless to what is going on around them, and overlook things thinking "oh nothing bad will ever happen" but when something does, they will feel guilty for never doing anything about it, and possibly could have prevented the worse from happening, especially to the victims who died or were seriously injured.
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