Combustible Dust & Materials | What is it?

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published a list of products known to produce combustible dust. There may be others. Do you make or handle any of these products that may create dust or powders?

Agricultural Products | Agricultural Dusts | Carbonaceous Dust | Chemical Dust | Metal Dust | Plastic Dust

Agricultural Dust

  • Alfalfa
  • Apple
  • Beet Root
  • Carrageen
  • Carrot
  • Cocoa bean dust or powder
  • Coconut shell dust
  • Coffee dust
  • Corn meal
  • Cornstarch
  • Cotton
  • Cottonseed
  • Garlic powder
  • Gluten
  • Grass dust
  • Green coffee
  • Malted hops
  • Lemon peel dust or pulp
  • Linseed
  • Locust bean gum
  • Malt
  • Oat flour
  • Oat grain dust
  • Olive pellets
  • Onion powder
  • Parsley (dehydrated)
  • Peach
  • Peanut meal and skins
  • Peat
  • Potato
  • Potato flour and starch
  • Raw yucca seed dust
  • Rice dust
  • Rice flour and starch
  • Rye flour Semolina
  • Soybean dust
  • Spice dust
  • Spice powder
  • Sugar (10x)
  • Sunflower
  • Sunflower seed dust
  • Tea
  • Tobacco blend
  • Tomato
  • Walnut dust
  • Wheat flour and starch
  • Wheat grain dust
  • Xanthan gum

Agricultural Products

  • Egg white
  • Powdered, or dry, nonfat milk
  • Soy flour
  • Corn, rice, or wheat starch
  • Sugar, milk sugar, or beat sugar
  • Tapioca
  • Whey
  • Wood flour

Chemical Dust

  • Adipic acid
  • Anthraquinone
  • Ascorbic acid
  • Calcium acetate and stearate
  • Carboxy-methylcellulose
  • Dextrin
  • Lactose
  • Lead stearate
  • Methyl-cellulose
  • Paraformaldehyde
  • Sodium ascorbate
  • Sodium stearate
  • Sulfur

Carbonaceous Dust

  • Activated and wood Charcoal
  • Bituminous coal
  • Petroleum coke
  • Lampblack
  • Lignite
  • Peat, 22%H20
  • Pine soot
  • Cellulose and cellulose pulp
  • Cork
  • Corn

Metal Dust

  • Aluminum
  • Bronze
  • Iron carbonyl
  • Magnesium
  • Zinc

Plastic Dust

  • (poly) Acrylamide
  • (poly) Acrylonitrile
  • (poly) Ethylene (low-pressure process)
  • Epoxy resin
  • Melamine resin
  • Melamine, molded (phenol-cellulose)
  • Melamine, molded (wood flour and mineral filled phenolformaldehyde)
  • (poly) Methyl acrylate
  • (poly) Methyl acrylate, emulsion polymer
  • Phenolic resin (poly)
  • Propylene
  • Terpene-phenol resin
  • Urea-formaldehyde/ cellulose, molded
  • (poly) Vinyl acetate/ ethylene copolymer
  • (poly) Vinyl alcohol
  • (poly) Vinyl butyral
  • (poly) Vinyl chloride/ ethylene/vinyl acetylene suspension copolymer
  • (poly) Vinyl chloride/ vinyl acetylene emulsion copolymer

Related Services:

Combustible Dust Assessments

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Combustible Dust eLearning: for Workers | for Employers/Managers| for Contractors