Ill. jury awards $6.7 million fatal ADM accident
September 16, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A central Illinois jury has decided Archer Daniels Midland Co. should pay the family of a 26-year-old man $6.74 million after he died at one of the agribusiness company's plants in 2007.
The judgment in the March 24, 2007, death of Francisco Moreno Garcia was entered Friday in Macon County Court in Decatur. Attorney Donald Shapiro, who represented Garcia's family, says Garcia worked for a St. Louis company and was insulating pipes at an ADM facility when he was sprayed with steam and hot water. Garcia was burned over 90 percent of his body.
Decatur-based ADM says it is reviewing the jury's decision.
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