The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has identified the grain handling industry as extremely hazardous. Being trapped in grain is the most common type of accident that occurs.

YORK — Central Valley Ag has announced the completion of its grain engulfment trailer, designed to provide local first responders with training for grain bin rescues. Developed in partnership with EBM ...

The 2025 Stand Up 4 Grain Safety Week brings together industry leaders and safety officials to address critical grain handling hazards and promote safe practices. US Department of Labor, industry ...

Aug. 14—SALEM, S.D. — Among the many hazards found working on the farm, grain bin engulfment can be one of the most deadly. In 2022, at least 42 grain entrapments were reported nationwide, the highest ...

Seventeen-year-old Cort Regier is partially buried in corn as classmate Brian Barr, left, and Casey Goertzen, right, assist Bin Biliti as he demonstrates a "Res-Q Tube" and the technique used to ...

It’s been described as being caught in quicksand and it happens just as quickly. Five seconds. That is how quickly a worker can become engulfed in flowing grain and be unable to get out. Sixty seconds ...

Tragic stories of grain bin accidents are all too common. While they can be prevented, trained emergency responders in many rural communities are a call away to help rescue those entrapped or engulfed ...

Brad Bousquet, the Safety Director for Central Valley Ag Coop, based in York, introduced an engulfment simulator at this year’s Husker Harvest Days. The CVA Coop simulator serves as a crucial tool to ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Clinton, Missouri, firefighters used a "Great Wall of Rescue" device, along with a rope harness, to pull a man trapped up to his chest in corn inside a grain bin. The employee of a ...

OSHA and the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division together have fined Tempel Grain Elevators LLP of Wiley, Colo., more than $1.6 million following the May 29 death of a teenage worker at the ...

A 94-year-old man died in a grain bin incident in Iowa on Monday, officials said. The Fremont County Sheriff's office said Robert Wayne Smith was unloading soybeans in Tabor, Iowa while running a ...

COLQUIT, Ga. — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined a company that owns and operates a South Georgia grain silo more than $40,000 after an employee’s death. According to ...