The tube is a portable device made up of aluminum panels that rescuers insert into the grain to prevent more grain from closing in on a victim while removing the pressure.

Getting stuck in a grain bin is usually a death sentence. About three-quarters of all grain entrapments result in fatalities, according to a Purdue University study of incidents between 1964 and ...

A man was rescued from a grain bin in Lawrence County, Tennessee after he sank and became 90% engulfed in corn, firefighters said.