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Silo spews cloud of dust over bus yard

61 drivers treated after malfunction at cement plant

Cement powder covered dozens of Boston public school buses yesterday after a silo at nearby Lafarge North America malfunctioned. School officials said they could not use any of the buses in the Charlestown yard, about one-third of the fleet, and buses were rerouted citywide.
By Megan Tench and Mac Daniel
Globe Staff / September 29, 2006

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A malfunctioning silo at a Charlestown cement company spewed a massive plume of dust yesterday, sending 61 bus drivers to hospitals with minor respiratory problems, coating about 60 school buses in a nearby parking lot with gray powder, and scrambling the afternoon bus ride home for thousands of students. (Full article: 532 words)

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