The city of South Sioux City, NE, has reached a $75,000 settlement of a lawsuit seeking reimbursement of funds the city spent responding to a2018 grain elevator explosion at Andersen Farms Inc.
The agreement was reached last month during a mediation session.
The city in February sued Andersen Farms Inc., Andersen Family Farms, Bryce Andersen and Luanne Andersen, seeking payment of a $120,034 invoice it sent for payment of emergency expenses the city incurred in response to the May 29, 2018, explosion.
城市有权报销的紧急情况expenses from the owner of a premises that has been deemed an unsafe structure and must be secured, according to city code cited in the lawsuit, filed in Dakota County District Court.
The May 29 blastblew a holein the elevator andinjured an employee who diedJuly 9 .
