The existing OSHA grain dust standard is fine, Fed-OSHA policy directors were told recently at the second of two public meetings. The 10-year-old standard was credited by the industry with reducing explosions and deaths by requiring no more than an eighth of an inch of accumulated dust in critical areas. Despite the deaths of seven workers in an explosion at the DeBruce Grain elevator in Wichita, Kansas, in June, no one from organized labor or other worker groups spoke at either of the mee
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