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MARNA, MN —
Cargill's Marna farm service center has achieved a significant grain industry safety milestone in having reached 30 years in which no employee has lost work time due to a work-related injury. The Cargill AgHorizons grain elevator facility has seven full-time employees helping farmers via grain handling, crop insurance, a complete crop inputs business, and grain marketing services. Each year, the facility is recognized for its ongoing safety achievements by the Grain Elevator and Processing Society.
Cargill management cites significant infrastructure investments made at facilities throughout its national grain elevator network, along with an increased effort to instill greater employee awareness and appreciation of the importance of workplace safety for themselves, customers and other onsite visitors, as key drivers behind the high level of safety performance reflected by this milestone.
"We are very pleased to be able to celebrate this milestone with our employees and the greater community," said Wayne Hartwig, facility manager for Cargill AgHorizons' Marna facility. "This milestone reinforces our entire team's commitment to safety."
As a business, Cargill AgHorizons has invested millions of dollars in recent years in employee training as well as onsite safety improvements to its facilities nationwide.
"Achieving and maintaining a safe work environment is something that we take very seriously, and in fact it is one of our core business values," said Chris Langholz, president of Cargill AgHorizons. "For us to be successful, safety must be a shared mindset that instills the utmost awareness and ongoing diligence about safe practices and behaviors in all of our employees, in everything we do, whether in the home or at work. With this in mind, we honor the achievement of our Marna team."
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This article was submitted by Cargill AgHorizons, a business unit of Cargill Inc.
