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Fall Protection Safety Gear and the Elevator Construction Site

Posted on Dec 26, 2011

News from KIMT TV Channel 3 from Kossuth County, Iowa – Two people, can’t be sure if they were workers, fell 35 feet from a ladder at a site where grain elevators were apparently being constructed. The news blurb is pretty brief and doesn’t contain a lot of facts but here it is - Link. The report is from December 3, 2011. Here is the Globe Gazette’s story. They name the construction site as Gold Eagle Cooperative in Titonka. The reporter, Peggy Senzarino, describes the grain elevator as a three million bushel facility being built by Buresh Building Systems from Hampton. WCR Courier coverage is more of the same with the exception of what a company spokesman stated, the victims were not Gold Eagle employees. KCRG TV adds one more fact after talking to the Kossuth County Sheriff’s Office. They reported the man and woman may have fallen from scaffolding or a ladder on which they were standing. So at this point there is nothing clear about the facts or the cause of the fall, but it seems clear they were up three stories without fall arrest protection. IOSH or OSHA will more than likely investigate the accident. KIMT.

Kossuth County, IA - A Monday evening accident leaves two injured at a grain elevator construction site in Titonka. The Kossuth County Sheriff's office says the workers fell 35 feet from a ladder where they were standing. A woman was air lifted by helicopter from the scene. The other victim was a man who was taken by ambulance to the Kossuth Regional Health Center. He was later air lifted from there. The Titonka Fire and Ambulance, and the Algona Ambulance Service responded.

Buresh Building Systems, Inc, 1219 Imperial Road, PO Box 301, Hampton, Iowa 50441-1931 and 641-456-5242. The owner is listed by Manta as Molly Bird. Buresh Building Systems, Inc and North Central Millwright, Inc. do have a website. The Buresh website describes their business as follows:

Buresh Building Systems, Inc. is a general contractor specializing in a wide range of design-build projects in the industrial, agricultural, renewable fuels and commercial markets. Through our partnerships with building manufacturers such as Behlen Building Systems and Accu-Steel Buildings, we are confident we can provide our customers with a building designed to meet their needs.

North Central Millwright, Inc. is an experienced and fully equipped millwright contractor. North Central Millwright has been servicing our customer’s millwright needs since 1981. Our customers vary from large grain cooperatives to small family owned farmers. Through our partnership with Sukup Manufacturing and other key equipment suppliers, North Central Millwright is ready to install and service all of your grain storage and handling equipment needs.

Our companies are proud of the fact that we self perform the concrete foundations and slabs, the building erection, and the millwright installation with our own experienced and professional in-house crews. It is for this reason we are able to control the four primary aspects of construction projects: Quality, Safety, Cost, and Schedule.

Thank you for visiting our website. We look forward to the opportunity to work with you in the future.

The projects button lists no jobs but the photographs button does provide images of the work they do. These are very large and complex building projects. The job sites look well maintained and organized. Buresh won a Venture Award in 2010 having been nominated by Franklin Rural Electric Cooperative.

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