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There were at least 27 cases of grain entrapment in the U.S. last year. OSHA recently added Missouri to the list of states where it’s emphasizing grain handling safety.

An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement that the company would welcome the agency into its sites at any time.

A federal workplace safety inspectors found Groundworks Contracting of Breese, Illinois, failed to protect workers who were installing storm sewer lines from the risk of trench cave-ins on a least five occasions.

Groundworks Contracting Inc. of Breese, Illinois ignored a city's engineers instruction to use trench cave-in protections, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The National Weather Service on Monday issued an excessive heat warning for the St. Louis region that lasts through Wednesday evening with temperatures that can feel as hot as 110 degrees.

Officers from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have been at the Amazon warehouse northeast of the Interstate 255/270 interchange since Saturday.

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