Safety
Tim McArdle is working as the ResponsibleAg Industry Ambassador. He highlights how ResponsbileAg is an industry program for the industry that “lights the way for you to be in compliance.”
In 2014, Nationwide launched Grain Bin Safety Week to not only get the essential rescue tools in the hands of first responders, but also the essential training. Nominations are now open for local departments.
The explosions occurred in one ethanol plant, two feed mills, two grain elevators, two rice mills and two grain processing plants.
EMTs and firefighters in many rural communities participate in training courses to learn how to perform a rescue using grain tubes.
The story of her father’s death in a grain bin emphasizes the need for safety around grain bins all year round.
Despite a positive trend, Purdue University’s Agricultural Safety and Health Program urges agricultural workers to remain diligent and follow safety protocols.
Purdue reported 23 fatalities related to grain bin entrapment in 2019. These stories haunted a city-dwelling film producer, Sam Goldberg, prompting him to share the dangers in putting food on the world’s table.
As a new crop goes in the bin, be mindful of storage best practices and keep safety top of mind.
Many of the 2018 incidents were relatively minor and that the higher number of incidents could likely be tied to an increase in grain production and handling.
On August 22, fire departments in and around Moravia, Iowa responded to a grain bin entrapment. The man who was trapped, along with those who rescued him, explain everything they did to successfully rescue Wilson.
Getting rid of your unused pesticides or pesticide containers takes time and proper steps. As such, it can take awhile to get to the top of your to-do list.
Gold Eagle Cooperative in Hardy, Iowa suffered a scare on Tuesday afternoon when the bin under its fertilizer building exploded.
This week, dangerous heat is sweeping across Texas to Wisconsin to Ohio to Georgia.
We’ve all had one of those horrible, no good, very bad days.
Farmers, livestock producers and others in the agriculture industry are part of core skin cancer statistics related to outdoor work, consistently ranking highest in overall sun exposure.
One note by report author, Kingsly Ambrose, highlights that in 2021 there was one fatality and five injuries.
There is a big ‘ick’ factor with this tick. Hundreds can be found on a person after a 30- to 60-second ATV ride through an infested field, says one researcher. While any animal can provide a meal, they prefer cattle.
Compared to the national average of 70%, rural America falls behind with only 34% of the adult population vaccinated.
For perspective, there were fewer mining-related fatalities (24) than so called confined-space fatalities (39) documented in 2019.
According to the report, there were eight-grain dust explosions in 2020, resulting in zero fatalities and nine injuries.
“This is about guiding the grower in the right direction,” says Worker Safety Lead, Lilly Reyes with GAR Bennett, LLC. “We want to reassure the grower and the employees that we will get through this together.”
Around 9 a.m. on Friday morning, emergency crews responded to the Anderson’s grain storage facility in Toledo, Ohio on Edwin Drive as two employees were reported trapped in a grain storage tank.
The sea of shifting soybean kernels had risen to Jay Butterfield’s knees inside a tall grain bin on his Ohio farm.
With the 2019 spring season just beginning, seven ammonia releases have already occurred in the state of Illinois.
You can share your stand-Up success stories on social media with the hashtag #StandUp4GrainSafety