Industrial Silo Fire and Explosion (Iredell County, Charlotte, NC - December 21, 1997)
On December 21, 1997, three volunteer firefighters from Iredell County, North
Carolina were injured in an explosion in a silo used to collect and store wood waste for
utilization as fuel at a cord reel manufacturing facility. The silo was an agricultural type
that had been converted for use as a collector for sawdust. The structure had been the site
of a minor explosion five years previously that had caused no injury.
Reproduced from Report 122 of the Major Fires Investigation Project conducted by Varley-Campbell
and Associates, Inc./TriData Corporation under contract EME-97-CO-0506 to the United
States Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Reported by: John Kimball
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