The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Macon County Circuit Court in Illinois, alleges that worker Antonio McElrath was in a Decatur facility known as the West Plant in April 2023 when a supervisor told him to shut down a grain "leg" tube that started smoking.

Archer Daniels Midland faces lawsuit over safety negligence at Decatur, Illinois, plant, which led to worker injury in explosion.

A production worker has sued ADM for his injuries from a 2023 explosion at the Decatur facility. Three people were hurt in a dust explosion at a grain elevator in April 2023. One of them, Antonio McElrath,

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co intentionally failed to test and maintain safety systems on its grain equipment for years, which contributed to an explosion that immolated a worker and put him in a coma last year,