Bin Operator Fined Over Sweep Auger Accident

摘要

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued LaBolt Farmers Grain Company, Inc. in LaBolt, South Dakota, 13 citations for exposing workers to unsafe conditions at its grain handling facility where a worker was caught in a moving bin sweep auger and suffered severe injuries to his leg and arm in 2011. Proposed penalties total $95,920.