OSHA’s webpage on grain handling is designed to provide workers, employers, and safety and health professionals with up-to-date safety and health information regarding grain handling facilities. Fires ...
Use downtime between harvest and planting to inspect augers, belts and bearings before the next busy farming season begins.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The lowest corn prices in recent years mean farmers are likely to store a large portion of the crop on the farm into the late spring or summer of 2014, a Purdue Extension grain ...
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 ...
According to a Purdue University report, 26 workers died in 2010 in grain bin engulfments and 51 were entrapped overall, representing the most entrapments in one year since Purdue began keeping ...
At least 83 people were injured — sometimes fatally — working in grain bins, livestock waste handling facilities, cotton module builders and other confined spaces last year, a nearly 41% increase over ...
To give farmers the convenience, efficiency, and speed of notouch permanent grain movement usually found in commercial grain operations, AGI announces the C-Line permanent grain handling system.
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On the fifth anniversary of the deaths, free grain handling safety training was offered to local farmers at the Carroll County Farm Bureau. The training, sponsored by the Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) ...