A Chicago law firm representing the family of a Clinton, IA, firefighter who was killed in an explosion while fighting a silo fire at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) grain facility on Jan. 5, 2019, and another Clinton firefighter who was severely injured in the explosion, has filed a suit in Clinton County District Court for wrongful death and negligence.
According to theQuad-City Times, the suit was filed June 12 and names ADM, Bill Whitters Construction Co., and/or BWC Industrial Services, LLC, of Solon.
An explosion in grain Silo 2 at ADM’s Clinton facilitykilled 33-year-old Clinton Fire Department Lt. Eric Hosetteand severely injured Clinton firefighter Adam Cain.