The Cargill plant in Webster County has received two awards for safety from the Corn Refiners Association.

It received the Zero Lost Workdays Award, which recognizes the facility for operating a full calendar year without an employee lost workday case and without a workplace-related fatality of an employee or non-employee.

It also received the One Million Hours Without a Lost Workday Award. That award recognizes the facility for operating for 1 million consecutive employee hours without an employee lost workday case and without a workplace-related fatality of an employee or non-employee.

The local Cargill plant is in the ag industrial park west of Fort Dodge called Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation. It is a wet corn milling plant that produces a variety of products. It opened in 2013.