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  Workers exposed to grain bin entrapment at Sabina Farmers Exchange

  Three employees of Sabina Farmers Exchange Inc. in Wilmington were found working inside a grain storage bin while a mechanical sweep auger, a machine used to push grain remaining at the bottom of a storage bin toward the bin's opening, was operating. This exposed the workers to severe injury and death by being engulfed in flowing grain. The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration has ...

  Jul. 10, 2014
  

  By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

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  Hanby Farms` workers face grain bin dangers, other hazards OSHA proposes more than $102K in penalties

  It takes only 60 seconds for a worker to be submerged in flowing grain; more than half of those engulfed in grain die. Workers at Hanby Farms in Nashport were exposed to being buried in grain or overcome by noxious fumes because the company did not verify that conditions were safe before allowing employees to enter bins at the grain elevator and feed mill. U.S. Department of Labor ...

  May 11, 2015
  

  By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

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  Worker loses toes in Waterville, Kansas, grain bin; incident due to safety violations

  He walked into the grain storage bin on his own two feet, but he left in an ambulance. The 35-year-old had been working for the Beattie Farmers Union Cooperative for about a year when one day he became entangled in an auger that was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning out the bin. At the hospital, doctors ...

  Feb. 24, 2015
  

  By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

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  Georgia`s Greg Sikes Farm cited by US Department of Labor`s OSHA for grain bin safety hazards; more than $127,000 in fines proposed

  The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Greg Sikes LLC, doing business as Greg Sikes Farm LLC, with two willful and five serious safety violations and proposed penalties of $127,400. The Brooklet farm was inspected in February upon notice that a worker had become entrapped inside a grain handling storage bin while attempting to clear soybeans from a ...

  Aug. 14, 2013
  

  By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

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  US Labor Department`s OSHA cites United Ethanol for 15 violations after worker fatally engulfed in corn bin at Milton, Wis., ethanol facility

  United Ethanol LLC has been cited for 15 health and safety violations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a worker was fatally engulfed in corn inside a grain storage bin on April 19 at the Milton ethanol manufacturing facility. "This was a terrible, preventable tragedy that underscores the importance of safety compliance," said Kim Stille, OSHA's ...

  Oct. 25, 2013
  

  By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

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  Learn & Live: Grain industry hazards lead to deaths, injuries each year OSHA, Grain and Feed Association of Illinois, Illinois Grain Handling Safety Coalition work together to promote safe practices

  Five seconds. That is how quickly a worker can become engulfed in flowing grain and be unable to get out. Sixty seconds. That is how quickly a worker can be completely submerged in flowing grain. More than half of all grain engulfments result in death by suffocation. In 2010, at least 26 U.S. workers were killed in grain engulfments, the highest number on record. Among the deaths were two ...

  Jun. 18, 2013
  

  By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

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  Farms must begin reporting air releases of hazardous substances from animal wastes

  Beginning November 15, 2017, many livestock, poultry and equine farms must comply with reporting requirements under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) section 103. The law requires entities to report releases of hazardous substances above a certain threshold that occur within a 24-hour period. Farms have historically been exempt from most reporting ...

  Nov. 7, 2017
  

  By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)