Firefighters fight a blaze Feb. 8, 2008, at the Imperial Sugar Company after an explosion Thursday night ripped apart the plant on the Savannah River in Port Wentworth, Ga.

Imperial Sugar Co. agreed to pay $6 million in fines in a long-negotiated settlement with federal regulators over safety violations found in the wake of a February 2008 explosion in a Georgia ...

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 ...

May 20: Imperial Sugar Co. assigns two members of its board of directors to conduct their own investigation of the explosion. June 16: Imperial Sugar Co. workers fire up the boilers, marking a ...

In 2010, Texas-based Imperial Sugar settled with OSHA by agreeing to pay more than $6 million in civil fines for safety violations at the Georgia refinery as well as at its plant in Gramercy, La.

The company was fined almost $9 million. Since the explosion, Imperial Sugar is producing and packaging sugar once again. The company says they have made significant strides in revamping the new plant ...

PORT WENTWORTH, GA (WTOC) - Wednesday, Feb. 7 marks the 10-year anniversary of a tragic day in the Coastal Empire -- the day the Imperial Sugar Refinery plant exploded. A total of 14 people lost their ...

Imperial Sugar has agreed to pay more than $6 million in fines for safety violations at two of its U.S. plants, including the Georgia refinery where a dust explosion killed 14 workers in 2008.

Shelathia Harvey, 31, of Hinesville, was operating a Bosch machine used in the refining, packing and transporting of sugar when the explosion tore through the plant, the lawsuit states.

No federal criminal charges will be filed against Imperial Sugar Co. in the 2008 explosion and fire that destroyed the refinery and left 14 workers dead, the U. Log In. Log In.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Imperial Sugar Co said an explosion late Thursday damaged its refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia and injured a number of workers. The company said the number and severity ...

SAVANNAH, GA. — Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion ...