The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Columbia Grain International for exposing their workers to grain-handling hazards after a worker was buried by corn and was killed in a grain bin last summer in North Dakota.

The agency is proposing $190,000 in penalties against the Portland, Oregon-based company after Kevin John Anderson, died as he was cleaning a bin in Arvilla, ND last July.

OSHA inspectors determined the company failed to follow the agency’s standards during grain bin entry and cleaning operations. The agency issued a citation for allowing employees to “walk the grain” and for not preventing contact with operating machine parts by locking out the bin’s conveyor system.

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