Grain entrapment is scary.
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I used to work for a big grain company for a short period of time. They expected people to go walk on that sometimes. I know of 2 deaths while I was there.
I live in a town surrounded by a lot of farms. This does happen on occasion.
So what do you do in this situation that you’ve fallen in to grain?
I imagine you might still be able to breath if you can keep your mouth covered.
Edit: I’m getting downvoted because I’m not familiar with grain suffocation? Ok there. 🙄
Edit again: oh they stopped. Thanks for not being jerks, everyone!
Not much. You really shouldn't be going into grain bins, and if you you do get stuck you should call for help and shut off anything that's making the grain move. If you have to go into the bin for some reason, there should be someone outside with you and you should have a safety rope to help pull you out. Covering your mouth won't help for long if at all. Someone will need to put up fans to ventilate the bin. You will suffocate in a grain bin and I've lost friends who went into bins.
https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/ag-hub/publications/caught-in-grain
God damn that’s fucking terrifying
Has the Internet forgotten Witness ? Harrison Ford as Amish, come on!
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You'd think by now there would be some kind of emergency quick release or some such. I don't know what but in any other industry I feel like there are regulations in place so the murder box has some safety features.
I'd imagine it's just one of those things where the safety feature for the murder box is just properly labeling the murder box, and making sure people who go in it are covered in ropes and safety equipment to pull them out if it starts murdering them.
Like people who have to go work in confined spaces like sewer tunnels. You can't really put safety gear into the tunnel, so you have to just make it hard to get there, label it, and make it possible to quickly get people out when it goes wrong.
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Nope. There's no way for air to get down there. It doesn't filter through the grain. If it did, moisture would get in too.
If they don't get you out quickly, you suffocate.
Every once in a while you read a story of someone that survived, it's usually because they had a mask of some sort that filtered enough air through the grain so they could breathe. Like this guy: https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/descent-hell-farmer-escapes-corn-tomb-death
Sounds horrible!
Can't remember the video where I saw this (maybe smarter every day?) but if you're not completely submerged they can use a tube/barrell they shove down around you and start scooping it out to release you.
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There was a guy who got stuck in his grain silo and before calling authorities he made a tiktok that showed him sinking every time he took a breath or moved in anyway. He was surprisingly calm but you could hear panic slowly wave over him as he spoke about how fucked he was. He was later rescued alive and made a very short video saying he survived.
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Growing up in a rural farm area, this was not an entirely unusual thing to occur. That always surprised me a little, seeing that it was talked about regularly and a known hazard. It was known well enough that, though I was never a part of the agricultural crowd, I knew the danger silos posed.
I grew up in a dairy farming community, drowning in slurry pits was the way to go there. Scared me witless as a kid.
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Perfect reminder for you to watch Barry if you haven't yet.
A quiet place is also relevant to grain facts
That scene fucked me up. I couldn’t lift my jaw off the ground for maybe a solid hour.
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Great, now I'm thinking about and dreading the existence of grain voids.
This is simultaneously horrifying and hilarious.
So uhhhhh how much pigeon per pound of flour we talkin' here
In some cases it's a short trip through an auger and they can survive just being transported from what I've been told.
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"This is my silo. My farm. My grains."
There are many grains like this grain but this grain is .... now in my lungs.
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Thank you for this info, I will no longer skinny dip in grain silos.
What?
In a grain silo, the top layer may appear hard and it may appear that everything is solid below you. However, there could be voids and the grain underneath is still loose. You can easily break through, get trapped, and suffocate in grain. This image actually appears to be from the wikipedia I came to link, heh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_entrapment
It only takes two seconds to three seconds to become helpless in flowing grain
IT ONLY TAKES TWO SECONDS TO BECOME HELPLESS IN FLOWING GRAIN
3 minutes to suffocate as well According to the Wikipedia your only chance of survival in that situation is to attempt to find or create a airpocket
One guy whom had a dust respirator was trapped for 5 hours sliping in and out of consciousness sounds terrifying not having control of your limbs stuck upto your head in grain alone in the freezing pitch dark and the risk of hypothermia or suffocation looms over you what a way to go
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New irrational fear unlocked.
It's not irrational. Grain silos are fucking scary. People die all the time. Grain is also very flammable.
Right? Like it's irrational if you don't live or work near a farm but if you do... Man you hear about silo deaths way to often, children being one of the worst ones you see in the news
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Ain't just flammable. Flour is often combustible and silos often explode.
this post gives me anxiety lol
This drove me bonkers in that movie "A Quiet Place". The physics of the grain were constantly changing on them, at first they were sinking, then the alien was on it fine, then they were on it fine, then they were sinking. It was a debacle and it may have bothered me more than it should have due to the dozens of other plot holes and innacuracies in the movie.
Wouldnt a net across say 5' from max full severely hinder grain-drownings?
And obstruct grain flow and eventually rip off, entangle and completely obstruct, if not fuck your machinery down the process chain.
The correct solution is wearing a security harness with a cable secured to a hook and having a second person outside the dangerous area to provide help and call for more help.
And i would be suprised if that isnt mandated by law or binding security standards already. Deadly incidents at grain silos, manure bunkers and so on are always the result of violating already existing security practices.
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