Learn About Combustible Dust

You may be required to use an explosive proof vacuum in your facility if you make any of the following items:

• Abrasive products
• Alumina and aluminum production and processing
• Aluminum die-castings
• Aluminum extruded products
• Aluminum foundries
• Beet sugar
• Broadwoven fabric mills, manmade fiber and silk
• Burial caskets
• Cane sugar refining
• Cellulosic manmade fibers
• Chemicals and chemical preparations
• Coating, engraving, and allied services
• Crop preparation services
• Custom compounding of purchased plastics resins
• Drapery hardware and window blinds and shades
• Electric and gas welding and soldering equipment
• Electroplating, plating, polishing, anodizing, and coloring
• Establishments engaged in the generation, transmission, and/or distribution of electric energy for sale
• Fabricated metal products
• Fabricated rubber products
• Farm product warehousing and storage
• Finishers of broadwoven fabrics of manmade fiber and silk
• Flavoring extracts, syrups, powders
• Flour and other grain mill products
• Fresh cookies, crackers, pretzels, and similar "dry" bakery products
• Guided missiles and space vehicles
• Gum and wood chemicals
• Industrial inorganic chemicals
• Manufacturing industries
• Metal cans
• Metal heat treating
• Metal stampings
• Millwork
• Miscellaneous fabricated wire products
• Molded, extruded, and lathe-cut mechanical rubber goods
• Motor vehicle parts and accessories
• Noncurrent-carrying wiring devices
• Nonferrous foundries, except aluminum and copper
• Paints, varnishes, lacquers, enamels, and allied products
• Pharmaceutical preparations
• Plastic materials, synthetic resins, and nonvulcanizable elastomers
• Plastics foam products
• Plastics materials and basic forms and shapes
• Plastics products
• Prefabricated wood buildings and components
• Prepared foods and miscellaneous food specialties
• Primary production of aluminum
• Reconstituted wood products
• Refuse systems
• Sanitary treatment facilities
• Sawmills and planing mills
• Scrap and waste materials
• Secondary smelting and refining of nonferrous metals
• Soap and other detergents, except specialty cleaners
• Structural wood members
• Textile goods
• Tires and inner tubes
• Transportation equipment
• Unsupported plastics film and sheet
• Unsupported plastics profile shapes
• Wet corn milling
• Wood household furniture, except upholstered
• Wood kitchen cabinets
• Wood products