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Omaha Steve

(99,573 posts) Wed Apr 3, 2013, 06:41 PM Apr 2013

Woman injured in grain elevator explosion

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130403/NEWS/130409851/1707#woman-injured-in-grain-elevator-explosion

LEXINGTON - A woman was injured Wednesday in a grain elevator explosion at Dawson Feeders, Inc., northeast of Lexington.

The Lexington Volunteer Fire was called to the scene about 10:30 a.m. There was no fire when firefighters arrived, but the roof had collapsed, said Chief Dahlas Holbein.

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Woman injured in grain elevator explosion (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2013 OP

Grain dust is highly combustible. NYC_SKP Apr 2013 #1

NYC_SKP

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1. Grain dust is highly combustible.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Apr 3, 2013, 06:49 PM

Apr 2013

Take a four inch cardboard tube, three or four feet long, and put a burning candle on the floor, then the tube over that.

Sprinkle some flour into the top of the tube and see what happens.

Boom!

Grain elevator fires/explosions are not uncommon.

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