South Dakota Wheat Growers Assoc. Fined $1.6M After Fatality
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the South Dakota Wheat Growers Association of Aberdeen, S.D., more than $1.6 million following the Dec. 22, 2009, death of a worker at the company’s McLaughlin, S.D., grain handling operation. The worker suffocated after being engulfed by grain in one of the facility’s...
