Suit Filed Against LA Grain Elevator Company After Worker Suffocates

Arnold & Itkin recently filed suit in East Baton Rouge Parish against a large grain elevator company in Louisiana after a husband and father was crushed and suffocated by thousands of pounds of grain at his jobsite. The firm represents his widow and is fighting to make sure she is reasonably compensated for the preventable and unnecessary death of her husband.

Grain entrapment is one of the most well-known dangers in the agricultural industry, and the steps required to prevent it are equally well-known. When companies that operate grain elevators ignore basic safety protocols, the result is exactly what happened here: a worker buried alive under the weight of the very material he was hired to handle.

"When companies fail to maintain their jobsites and fail to ensure safe operations, people get killed," said attorney Shane Munton. "I am humbled at the opportunity to represent our client at the darkest time of her life and to make sure she gets the justice she is entitled to."

Our client's husband should have come home from work that day. Instead, his wife is left to pick up the pieces of a life she never expected to live without him. Our wrongful death attorneys are proud to stand beside her and pursue full accountability against the company whose negligence cost her the man she loved.