During a hearing Wednesday, Johnson County Attorney Rachel Zimmermann Smith said if another Hawkeye Waste employee is harmed — like employee Matthew Reuwsaat, 61, a skid loader operator who was crushed by the equipment last year — that employee wouldn’t be covered by worker’s compensation insurance for a workplace accident.
Despite vast resources and awareness of the risks, ADM has failed to prevent a series of recent grain explosions, according to interviews with experts and a review of federal, state, and local records obtained by Investigate Midwest.
Iowa Workforce Development granted waivers to two Iowa employers to train 16- and 17-year-olds to perform hazardous work, despite federal restrictions and safety concerns, including risk of amputation.
The North Linn Community School District undertook an expansive renovation in 2022 of its middle and high school complex near Coggon.
Iowa OSHA has cited an Indianapolis construction company for safety hazards at the construction site of Cedar Rapids’ $49 million Banjo Block development.
For weeks before blasts tore through a Marengo recycler and injured at least five people and caused nearby evacuations Thursday, public safety officials have been trying to get the company to disclose what hazardous chemicals were on site.
A Quad Cities man who was an experienced scuba diver died last week during a dive to repair a broken cable at the bottom of a million-gallon anaerobic digester.
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