# One Man Reported Seriously Injured in Coal Hopper Blast in New Zealand - Dust Safety Science

> A coal hopper dust explosion and fire at the AFFCO Moerewa meat and rendering plant in New Zealand seriously injured one worker. Fire crews extinguished the blaze, and the cause is reported as a possible boiler problem.

- Date: 2018-07-19 · published 2018-07-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region New Zealand · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/64162-one-man-reported-seriously-injured-in-coal-hopper-blast-in-new-zealand-dust
- Commodities: [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md)

## Why it matters

A single-plant accident with one injury has little effect on global meat or meal supply, although a rendering plant outage could slightly tighten local meat bone meal output.

## Read by commodity

- MBM: neutral

## Sources

- dustsafetyscience.com: https://dustsafetyscience.com/coal-hopper-explosion-new-zealand/

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