Abstract: This paper makes a statistical analysis of the dust explosion accident in China from 2005 to 2018, studies the characteristics of accident-related factors such as space, time, number of accidents and dust types, and summarizes the general law of dust explosion accidents in China. Statistics show that China's dust explosion accidents are mostly in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other industrial developed areas; summer and winter, shift time and the decline of human body fitness period have high incidence of accidents; metal dust, wood dust and food dust is the main dust explosion, of which metal dust is the main category of dust explosion accidents, and the proportion of accidents was as high as 45.24%. The results of the study are helpful to prevent and control dust explosion accidents and promote the safe production of industrial production in China.

Key words: flammable dust, dust explosion, statistical analysis, fire investigation