Construction worker dies after fall at Benson ethanol plant
A Missouri man is dead after falling from a tank under construction at an ethanol plant in western Minnesota.
It happened yesterday at the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company plant in Benson.
Swift County Sheriff Scott Mattison says the victim 26-year-old James Pippen of Nevada, Missouri was an employee of U-S-A Tank Sales of Seneca, Missouri.
The sheriff's office got a call around 2:15 in the afternoon that a construction worker had fallen about 60 feet inside a tank under construction at the plant.
Rescuers took Pippen to the Swift County Hospital in Benson, where he died.
The accident is under investigation by the state OSHA division, the Swift County coroner and the sheriff's office.
Jason Berkes
www.jasonberkes.com
It happened yesterday at the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company plant in Benson.
Swift County Sheriff Scott Mattison says the victim 26-year-old James Pippen of Nevada, Missouri was an employee of U-S-A Tank Sales of Seneca, Missouri.
The sheriff's office got a call around 2:15 in the afternoon that a construction worker had fallen about 60 feet inside a tank under construction at the plant.
Rescuers took Pippen to the Swift County Hospital in Benson, where he died.
The accident is under investigation by the state OSHA division, the Swift County coroner and the sheriff's office.
Jason Berkes
www.jasonberkes.com
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