Corn Starch DUST CLOUD ignition as Water Park Festival (WARNING - GRAPHIC)
WARNING - this video shows the ignition of the dust cloud and people within the dust cloud on fire and trying to escape. The sights and sounds of this video ARE VERY GRAPHIC in nature, but shows the hazards of Corn Starch and its ease to ignite. Corn Starch has one of the lowest MIE's in the Combustible Dust family. We do not yet know the ignition source, but a high wattage concert light bulb or a lit cigarette would be enough to ignite this cloud of corn starch. As you watch this video, remember the five (5) things that have to be present for a COM DUST incident: |
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Official estimated that around 400 people injured, 228 were taken to hospital. 96 severely injured and 132 with minor injury. 12 of them are in critical situation. No one died from the incident so far.
It is reported that one of the stage speaker short circuit and ignited the powders thus caused the explosion. The other factor is that the concert was about to end and the organizer intended to spray all the powders that was left, which suddenly increase the amount of powders in the air and triggered the explosion.
Video From Another Angle: https://youtu.be/q5cZ8l0Ag5o?t=1m25s
Sourcewww.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20150628/36634889/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%99%E6%A8%82%E5%9C%92%E5%9C%B0%E7%8D%84%E7%81%AB12%E5%91%BD%E5%8D%B1400%E5%82%B7
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