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 – 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 ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - An explosion at Imperial Sugar's plant near Savannah, Georgia, in 2008 that killed 14 people was "entirely preventable," the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said in a report on ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. -- Search crews recovered another body Sunday from a sugar refinery devastated by a massive explosion, raising the number of confirmed deaths to six, the state's top elected fire ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The death toll from a Georgia sugar refinery explosion has risen again. A hospital spokeswoman in Augusta says another burn patient has died from injuries suffered in the blast at ...

Imperial Sugar Company admitted to no wrongdoing in reaching a settlement with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration last week over the February 7, 2008, combustible dust explosion at its ...

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- A 10th victim of the February 7th Imperial Sugar refinery blast in Port Wentworth, near Savannah, died in the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital Friday.The ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A hardhat was hung in the centers of 10 wreaths of white carnations at a memorial service Saturday, one for each of the Imperial Sugar workers killed in the explosion at the company's ...

Penalty for violations, led by deadly blast in Ga., would be third largest in OSHA history. SAVANNAH, Ga. — Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 ...

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 ...