The Georgia Imperial Sugar Disaster 2008 | Plainly Difficult Short Documentary

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"On February 7 2008, The Imperial Sugar Refinery in Georgia, over run with sugar dust, would catch on fire..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:58 The Refinery
04:30 The Disaster
07:13 Investigation
09:37 Aftermath

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[PlainlyDifficult]

Any more explosions you'd like me to cover let me know Below!

[uzaiyaro]

Another classic case of “if you think safety is expensive, try having an accident.”

[crystalbfarmer]

I've worked in factories and no matter how much you document, workers take the easy path. Managers only care about cleanliness when there is a tour. Safety is secondary to production.

[robertschemonia]

PD, I have to tell you something. Since I started watching your videos a couple years ago, it has opened my eyes to safety issues at work. After there was an incident at the place that I work at that almost killed someone, I stepped up and volunteered to be the OSHA compliance officer. Thankfully, everyone takes what I say seriously and listens to our new safety regulations. I literally wrote the book for my company on our safety rules and regulations. Keep the awesome videos coming man.

[mattblom]

Anyone who's worked in food processing has had similar problems, sadly. You will get a million stories. I worked in a berry processing plant one year and due to production quotas we overloaded the conveyors constantly with berries and the conveyor engines ran red hot. The room was technically "chilled" but the heat that radiated from the overburdened machines was palpable.Breakdowns were common, mechanical safeties would trip every 20-40 minutes and be instantly overruled.

[jfanreva]

Living on the Great Plains in the US, I can recall hearing of several grain elevator explosions while I was growing up, so when I read the title, I was like "Whoa! sugar is way more flammable than grain, this is gonna be bad!" Yeah, it was. The really shocking thing was that it occurred in 2008, not 50 - 100 years ago.

[tommycochran]

I have worked in this facility many times. They definitely keep it cleaner even more than a decade after the incident. They have a memorial to those were lost just inside the facility. Everytime I went, there were always flowers on the plaques.

[skwervin]

I have worked in factories that have varied between a total mess and one that I was the Quality Manager for, the floor, packing areas etc were damn spotless - we dealt with milk powder, 2 massive spray dryers running 24/7/365 you have to clean as you go because there isn't the down time for a pull apart clean more than once a year. I would photograph any rubbish I found on the floor of the sprayer building or the packing area, from bits of paper of scrap from maintenance to piles or dusting of powder suggesting a leak etc and I did this every week randomly and would chew out the staff who left anything behind. We had a info session on powder fires from other milk powder factories including near misses and after that my guys upped their game by 1000%. They knew that I wasn't someone who liked kicking peoples asses unless it involved their safety or the safety of our product and that at the end of he day, I wanted them all to get home safely.

[acidblue]

I used to work at a metal reclaimation plant. One of the hardest thing to make new people to understand is the importance of dust safety

[LEgGOdt]

Sugar plant fires are extremely dangerous not because of the sugar powder dust, but the molten sugar that when in a molten state behaves like lava and sticks to everything and will hold scolding heat for a long time.

[toribug]

Oh my god, I remember this! I was a sophomore in high school and lived less than half an hour from here. I distinctly remember feeling the entire house shake and rumble, my mom thought it was an earthquake. Everyone at school was talking about it the next day; I remember my boyfriend (husband now) was panicked because his dad was a trucker who often worked around the sugar refinery and he hadn’t heard from him since before the accident. Thankfully he was alright. A few weeks after that a local motorcycle club had a massive 100+ bike fundraiser thing for the families. It’s so wild to see something I can clearly remember on a channel like this.

[watchesfromedges]

How in the 21st century can a facility this big have such a medieval attitude towards dust build-up? That this factory was operating with so little regard to safety and the lack of proper extraction and prevention involved is mindblowing.

[scorchdraken]

My employer actually uses this disaster as an example of the dangers of grains explosions. Surprisingly, they actually keep their grains areas cleaned and well maintained.

[lemur]

When I studied barn safety and management for horses, the one thing they drilled into us was that dust was the number 1 danger in a barn, not only for the fire hazard, but for what it does to your lungs

[mxadema]

I worked in many wood mill as a welder contractor. many mill are easy to get lost in. and most of them will clean but all the hidden corner and hard to access area are always full of dust and debris.

we always had to soak everything when welding an stick around for many hours after the fact. and often we had to clean stuff before we can actually start work.

[FireDragonAnime]

3:37 I was confused for a moment when instead of a bag of sugar, I saw a grey box that says 1280 x 720, hehe.

Excellent video!

[jerriecan]

I'll always remember the power in a dust explosion - when I was young, I went on a field trip where they had a demonstration, a small clear box they filled with a small amount of dust and then touched off a spark. I think it was the loudest bang I've ever heard, certainly the most unexpected.

[Harrisboyuno]

Plainly, As a Savannah native and a local healthcare worker I was there to support the victims of the sugar refinery accident. The horror's witness after the accident were indescribable. I felt so bad for the victims with Scan Burns that would have created a 4th degree. Just a thing all this happened because Is a company valued a dollar over the safety of human beings. The horrors not only traumatized victims but staff alike. I have been watching your channel channel months now and want to thank you for covering this in my currently sunny yet always warm for this time of year of Savannah Ga.

[gwiazdapioun]

It's scary how some of the disasters described here are so similar that when I'm watching, sometimes I think to myself "Wait haven't I seen this episode already?"

[anthonyhusband]

Dixie Crystal sugar. I remember having to explain to a customer of the grocery store I worked at at the time that we don't have that brand of sugar due to the explosion that killed more than a dozen people.