INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The death of a western Indiana man sucked into a grain bin has led the Indiana Department of Labor to remind workers about the hazards of working in grain-handling facilities and ...

First responders say the U.S. sees 25 to 30 grain bin deaths every year -- and that number is only rising. The latest numbers show there were more than 40 deaths nationally in 2023. And here in ...

A 94-year-old man died in a grain bin incident in Iowa on Monday, officials said. The Fremont County Sheriff's office said Robert Wayne Smith was unloading soybeans in Tabor, Iowa while running a ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Nearly 200 people have suffocated in grain bins in the U.S. in the past 30 years, according to Texas A&M. The Louisiana Farm Bureau and the Louisiana Fire and Rescue Academy ...

Nearly 500 farmers and workers have suffocated in grain storage bins in the past 40 years. The worst year on record was 2010, with 26 people... Enforcement Of Penalties Weak In Grain Bin Deaths DAVID ...

The deaths of two teenagers in a grain-bin accident in Carroll County, Ill., 18 months ago were preventable and should send "a profound and unmistakable message" throughout the grain industry, ...

A grain bin operator will pay $200,000 in penalties resulting from the deaths of two teenagers in July 2010. The U.S. Department of Labor announced an agreement this morning with Haasbach LLC in Mount ...

With on-farm grain storage on the rise—and a record number of grain engulfment deaths across the nation last year—agricultural leaders in Nebraska are placing special emphasis on grain handling safety ...

DENVER (Reuters) - A rural Colorado company pleaded guilty in federal court in Denver on Friday to violating workplace laws in the death of a 17-year-old boy who suffocated after he was sucked into a ...

December 5th, 2015 was a typical day on Dennis Schneider’s farm in Corder, Mo. He was working to get corn out of a grain bin, one that had been on his farm since the late 1970s. “I had a little bit of ...

An Illinois jury has returned a record verdict of nearly $17 million in the deaths of two teenagers and the traumatic entrapment of a third worker in a grain bin in 2010, NPR's Howard Berkes reports.