![]() So far, the damage appears to be isolated to the grain silos and storage sides of the facility, with no effect on the distillation section of the plant, he said. "We're assessing what sort of chain reaction or larger effects there are (to the plant) from this incident," Carey said. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration look into the cause of the explosion and fire, Carey said. The mid-sized plant, which can produce 135 million gallons of ethanol produced per year, will remain closed as the company and U.S. The sale was part of a broader effort by ADM, one of the world's largest producers of ethanol, to cut costs. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland Co late last year for an undisclosed sum. The employees were exposed to smoke and later discharged from the hospital, Carey said.īioUrja, an energy and agricultural commodity trading and supply group based in Houston, bought the dry-mill corn ethanol plant from U.S. The cause of the explosion is not yet known, he said. The incident happened on Wednesday evening, when the Peoria, Illinois, fire department responded to a report of a grain bin explosion, said company president Scott Carey. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, not Illinois Department of Labor, Division of Occupational Safety and Health)Ī grain silo imploded and set the BioUrja Group's ethanol plant in central Illinois on fire, sending two employees to the hospital and forcing the closure of the facility, a company executive said on Thursday. ![]() CHICAGO, May 12 (Reuters) - (This May 12 story corrects paragraph 5 to U.S.
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