Walinga, an equipment manufacturer at the KMOT Ag Expo, has what’s known as a grain bin vacuum. A sales rep for the company told us the agri-vac 3510 hit the market about a year ago and is used ...

MOTT, N.D. (KXNET) — Around 4:30 P.M. Thursday afternoon, first responders and the Hettinger County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 67-year-old man trapped inside of a grain bin, northeast of ...

In the past several decades, hundreds of injuries and deaths have occurred in grain bins across the country. Few people realize the hazards from flowing grain, including the risk of engulfment ...

So, the worst did strike my mind, obviously, because, it’s not very often there’s a successful rescue from a grain bin entrapment.” “We arrived on scene and I immediately climbed up to the ...

He was referring to emergencies in which farmers and others get trapped in grain bins, a relatively rare situation. Nevertheless, they are common enough to justify the need for a few dozen ...