Port of Wilma in Whitman, WA

The accident happened at Columbia Grain’s facility at the Port of Wilma in Whitman County, WA

A 41-year-old Lewiston, Idaho man was hospitalized Monday after falling from an in-ground storage container at Columbia Grain Company at the Port of Wilma Complex and is believed to have suffered a broken back and wrist.

The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office reports Robert C. Richard was working at Columbia Grain when the cover to the storage container gave way causing him to fall 18 feet onto a concrete floor. Clarkston paramedics took Richard to an area hospital and the industrial accident remains under investigation.

From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News