Grain entrapment - Wikipedia
While the death rate from workplace accidents on American farms has declined in the first decades of the 21st century, grain-entrapment deaths have not, reaching an all-time annual high of 31 deaths in 2010. [3] Many of those victims have been minors. [4]
The crushing truth about grain bin mishaps and how to survive
May 1, 2014 · According to researchers at Purdue University, more than 900 cases of grain engulfment have been reported with a fatality rate of 62 percent over the past 50 years. In 2014, as of mid-March, two fatalities and at least two serious injuries have resulted across the nation from grain bin mishaps.
Grain Bin Deaths - NPR.org
Nearly 180 people — including 18 teenagers — have been killed in grain-related entrapments at federally regulated facilities across 34 states since 1984, records show. The employers involved were...
During the week of June 6, 2011, three workers, one each in Iowa, Michigan and North Dakota, were killed when they were engulfed (buried or trapped) by grain while on the job. In Texas, a fourth worker was also buried in grain, but was rescued and survived.
Three Workers Dead in Grain Silo, Including a Child. OSHA Can …
Sep 22, 2022 · Grain silos are well known death traps that kill dozens of workers, often children, every year. When grain gets stuck, workers often go in at the top of a silo to loosen the grain or “walk it down.” But when the grain starts flowing, it can suck the worker down like quick sand causing suffocation.
Grain Entrapment, Livestock Waste Handling Injuries and Deaths …
Jun 5, 2023 · PACSID contains information on 2,323 cases resulting in an injury or fatality, or which required emergency extrication, occurring between 1962 and 2022. Of those cases, 1,355, or 59%, were fatal. Grain storage and handling facilities and/or grain transport vehicles were involved in 72% of all cases.
Grain entrapment is the leading cause of agricultural confined …
Sep 19, 2024 · New findings reported no fewer than 55 cases involving agricultural confined spaces, with 29 fatal and 26 nonfatal cases. This represents a 33.7% decrease over the 83 cases documented in 2022. Data also revealed that at least 27 grain entrapments took place in 2023, showing a 35.7% decrease over 2022.
Grain Entrapments Down; Fatality Rate Still High - Successful Farming
Feb 21, 2023 · Fewer grain bin entrapments and other confined-space incidents were documented in 2021 than in years past, but more than one-third of those cases still resulted in fatalities. Each year, Purdue University publishes the Summary of U.S. Agricultural Confined Space-Related Injuries and Fatalities.
On U.S. Farms, Deaths in Silos Persist - The New York Times
Oct 29, 2012 · Silos teeming with corn, wheat or soybeans become death traps when grain cascades out of control, asphyxiating or crushing their victims.
OSHA Finds Nine 'Serious Violations' in Colquitt Grain Silo Death
Sep 19, 2023 · A federal investigation into how a 59-year-old worker at a Colquitt grain silo became engulfed and suffocated in April 2023 found the operator could have prevented the fatality by following required grain-handling safety regulations.