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Lincoln Co. dairy faces OSHA fine

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a proposed $2,500 citation against 4-Bros Dairy in connection with a trucker who was crushed March 7 when a silage stack tumbled over him and his truck at the facility northwest of Shoshone.

"Employees were exposed to potential engulfment and crushing hazards," said David Kearns, OSHA assistant area director, who is based in Boise. "And that basically had to do with the vertical or overhanging silage face. This (citation) addressed both the truck driver's exposure as well as the farm's employees' exposure to that same potential hazard.

"They just were lucky to not be in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.

The citation was issued Tuesday and mailed to 30-year-old Chad Charles Thompson's next of kin and to the dairy, which on Thursday had yet to receive a copy, said Andrew Fitzgerald, the dairy's secretary treasurer. Fitzgerald said the driver had been warned against parking too close to the tower of silage, which was expected to imminently fall over.

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