SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – 17 years ago, Feb. 7, 2008, an explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth rocked the ...

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 ...

The privately held Florida agribusiness U.S. Sugar will purchase Imperial Sugar, the Sugar Land, Texas-based company that owns and operates the Port Wentworth sugar refinery that's served as a ...

The company markets for Red River Valley beet sugar cooperatives, but also U.S. Sugar Inc., of Florida, which is buying Imperial Sugar Co. Photo taken March 24, 2021, at Moorhead, Minn. Mikkel ...

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (WTOC) - Friday marks 12 years since the Imperial Sugar Refinery in Port Wentworth exploded, killing 14 people. The explosion was caused by a dangerous build-up of sugar dust in ...

OSHA Seeks $8.7 Million Fine Against Sugar Company The owner of a refinery in Georgia where 13 workers died in a dust explosion in February knew of safety hazards at the plant but did nothing ...

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 to make it bigger, better and safer.

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.

Calvin Bryant was crippled in a Imperial Sugar plant explosion in Savannah, Georgia, that also killed 14 of his co-workers. In a new CorpWatch investigation into federal contractors who win millions ...

The explosion tore through the Union Sugar division of the Holly Sugar Corp. plant at 1:58 p.m., said Santa Barbara County fire department spokesman Capt. Charlie Johnson.

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.S. Attorney’s Office announced ...