SAVANNAH, GA – In a final draft report released today, Chemical Safety Board investigators said the Feb. 7, 2008, deadly explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA, resulted from ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – 17 years ago, Feb. 7, 2008, an explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth rocked the community. Over those years, WSAV News 3 has covered the event, the ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Dust that collected in a piece of safety equipment caused a small explosion at a sugar refinery weeks before the deadly blast that killed nine workers, a federal investigator said ...

Sugar dust is so combustible that static electricity, sparks from metal tools or a cigarette can ignite explosions. More than 300 dust explosions have killed more than 120 workers in grain silos, ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. -- Crews searching for four missing sugar refinery workers worked Saturday to shore up the wobbly remnants of the plant devastated by an explosion and fire that killed four other ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. -- Volatile dust was blamed Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and crews pulled three bodies from tunnels beneath the mangled mass of metal and beams left by the ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) - An explosion rocked a sugar refinery, injuring dozens and setting the waterfront facility aglow with flames against the night sky. Firefighters still were battling the fire ...