I had a close call in my reloading room today.  I have track lighting over my reloading bench with incandescent bulbs in it.  I also have not been very good at cleaning up spilled gunpowder.  I load both smokless and black powder for several rifles and pistols.  I turned on the lights and heard something falling and than there was a sizzling sound and than the room filled with smoke.  I ran over to the bench and stomped out the fire which consisted of buring paper.  I cleaned up the mess and noticed a broken light bulb in the debris.  I looked up and sure enough one of the bulbs was broken.  There was nothing but the screw in base left.  Apparently when I turned on the lights the bulb exploded and showered the reloading bench with hot filiments which ingited the spilled powder and started the fire.  Fortunatly I was able to extingish the fire before any damage was done.  I have replaced the incandescent bulbs with florescent ones and will take better care in cleaning up when I spill powder in the future.

cc_Shooter, 

Make sure that you have the diffuser on the Florescent fixture or that you install a couple of wires around the fixture and bulbs to keep them from droping on your head if they should vibrate loose.  Also the stuff inside the bulbs isn't any thing you want to breath if they should fall and break.

Footloose