The experts say that up to 90 percent of grain entrapments could be eliminated if farmers did not work alone or enter grain bins when unloading augers are running. With a 12-inch auger, it only takes ...

Entrapment or Suffocation in Grain Transport Vehicles. This includes grain carts, wagons and trucks and often occurs during the unloading operation.

Farming is crucial to our way of life in North Dakota, but it can be dangerous work at times.In 2020, our state ranked second ...

Robert Wayne Smith, 94, was unloading soybeans while running a grain vacuum when he died on Monday, ... there were 29 grain entrapments reported in 2021, which resulted in 11 deaths.

A sales rep for the company told us the agri-vac 3510 hit the market about a year ago and is used by fire departments in the case of grain bin entrapments. It’s essentially a giant vacuum that ...

Robert Wayne Smith, 94, was unloading soybeans while running a grain vacuum when he died on Monday, the Fremont County Sheriff's office said.

Grain entrapment training turned into a real-time rescue mission when an adult became wedged in the flow and firefighters were forced to cut the hopper bottom open. Producer Matt Roberts, 35 ...

Fire departments across the country — including three in Southern Maryland — will be better equipped to deal with grain bin accidents after being awarded life-saving grain rescue equipment.