Tag Archives: Explosions

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced two senior employees at a Wisconsin corn plant to two years in prison Thursday for falsifying records and obstructing an investigation into a fatal corn dust explosion seven years ago. U.S. District Judge James Peterson sentenced Derrick Clark, 50, of Waunakee, Didion Milling’s vice president of operations, and Shawn Mesner, 45, of …

SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager has pleaded no contest to charges that he triggered a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people in 2022. Sam Armstrong, 18, pleaded no contest on Monday to 13 counts of injury by negligent use of an explosive. A judge set his sentencing for April 11, WLUK-TV reported. Under Armstrong’s plea …