Third Didion Official Sentenced to Prison Following Deadly Blast

A federal judge in Wisconsin on Friday handed down prison time for a third former Didion Milling Inc. official for his role in events related to a fatal a 2017 fatal grain dust explosion that killed five employees and injured more than a dozen workers.

Joseph Winch, who served as Didion’s environmental manager until 2019, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for conspiring to submit false certifications that concealed the fact that Didion’s workers routinely faked environmental compliance records about cleaning up accumulations of explosive corn dust.

Winch’s two-year prison term came a day after similar sentences were ...