Grain bin auger accidents surge in winter months, with a 32% fatality rate. Unguarded floor openings cause most incidents.

Above: Purdue student in grain bin rescue simulator. I recently re-watched the 2016 video entitled, “Stop, Think, & Live!” a work about grain entrapment, produced by Posey County Farm Bureau, Inc., ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It is one of the most dangerous jobs of farming: entering a grain bin. This week is Grain Bin Safety week — bringing awareness to the dangers associated with grain bins when ...

SANBORN, Iowa (KUOO) - One man was seriously injured after he got caught on the inside sweep auger of a grain bin. The Sanborn Fire Department, Ambulance Service, and O’Brien County Sheriff’s deputies ...

It’s almost a rite of passage for a combine operator to snag an unloading auger on a tree or power pole sometime during their career. It may be a novice driver who hasn’t learned how far out that ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Getting trapped inside a grain bin, fill with corn or beans, can be a fatal mistake on the farm. That’s why students got some hands-on training, from rescue crews, on how to save ...

TABOR, Iowa (WOWT/Gray News) – A 94-year-old man died in a Iowa grain bin Monday, according to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office. Officials with the sheriff’s office said it appeared Robert Smith ...