Drowning in Grain: A Look at the Hidden Dangers of Farming | Short Film Showcase
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- Farmers often risk their lives to climb inside silos and break up clumps of grain. Silo: Edge of the Real World profiles farmer Adam Fox and high school student Clay Althoff as they contemplate the risks and rewards of working in this dangerous profession.
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In small farm towns across the United States, workers often venture into silos to loosen crusted or spoiled grain. Occasionally, these clumps give way rapidly and the kernels will flow like quicksand to engulf an individual in seconds. Sadly, only about half of grain entrapment victims survive. Directed by Marshall Burnette, Silo: Edge of the Real World profiles farmer Adam Fox and high school student Clay Althoff as they contemplate the risks and rewards of working in this dangerous profession.
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Just lost a buddy of mine to a grain bin engulfment the other night... I was a first responder on the scene and helped clean up corn the next day 😔
John Johnsonston I’m so so very sorry sweetheart.
Sorry for your loss.
sorry
So sorry 😢 dode
I'm sorry for your buddy....your just like me I lost my buddy this morning playing with my brother
One of my cousins just died from this. He was basically raised on the farm and loved it and knew all the things you should and shouldn't do, but he still died at 18 from the grain collapsing while he was in there. So so sad. With as many generations back as I know, we have all been farming, but it's sometimes easy to forget how dangerous it really is.
Victoria Hess 🙏🏻😢☹️😔
I mean…. How did the grain “collapse” on him??
@@catfish5272 I’m still learning about this (you probably got an answer already) but I assume it’s when the grain caves/comes down hence collapsing
Almost fell in one when I was playing with my brother.I now know what it was and the dangers of it.
Precioussssss....my precioussssss
Froop Loop I’m glad you’re alive and safe.
Glad your safe
As a farmer I guess I never really understood the actual dangers. Dad would stand at the top and basically dive into them and never really worried about anything happening. So watching the movie Silo I didn’t really understand why he couldn’t just climb out.
A fine portrait of the lives that help feed America and the world... and a danger the rest of us never think about. Godspeed, Ray
I’m here because I just saw A Quiet Place.
Same I was wondering if it was possible to drown in corn.
I watched the kill count for quiet palce and the dude mentioned dying in grain
@@aWERFRGT6545BGFG lmao was it dead meat cause thats why im here too🤣 i love his kill count vids
Saw it in Jigsaw as well.
Same, rewatch of A Quiet Place, after three years, back then forgot I was gonna research this. Now getting ready for part 2 and here I am.
Someone in my town died yesterday from falling in their silo
Was it a honey silo?
This is the first time hearing "killer corn" on national geographic.
Samovar The Russian Water Boiler so qwick corn
Be careful out there guys 😘!!!
Stay aware ALWAYS... it's not gonna happen to you BECAUSE you will remain focused on safety and risk.
We respect you and your industry 💪🏼
Peace be with all of the AWESOME farmers and all of the hard workers who help keep them running 🏆
Blessings and Cheers 🍻
Very strange, security measures must be taken for these farmers. In India hundreds and hundreds of our poor farmers commit suicide each year due to deep poverty, high debts and hunger.
i have heard of this...unscrupulous seed companies make loans to these people at such a rate that can never be paid back
Wouldnt putting an electric winch at the top and having the guy run it on a harness with a wireless controller or even wired solve this? Just have him extend a little each time he has to go lower. Then if he got sucked down he could just winch his way out...
Wow! Very informative video. One of the best that I have seen. Thanks to all of the farmers in our country. Mad respect.
We're so glad you enjoyed and found the video informative!
Who's here after watch A Quite place 2018
Me 😂
Me 🤣
Building farm equipment is dangerous too. Almost lost a finger a couple times, inches from skull being crushed by improperly hung jig, and careless idiot forklift drivers.
That must be heartbreaking.
Isn't the obvious solution a safety harness? They're relatively cheap. They might not help in every accident, but certainly a lot.
these accidents happen to the few who don’t wear them
With some safety practices such as a walk-in talkie and just being careful these kinds of things are preventable, harnesses may seam cheap but if you have to have one in every bin it would add up quick but yah they would be good
@@xXWOAT13Xx I would have to disagree I’ve never seen a person wear a harness in a grain bin
Great information!! Thanks for sharing this informative video!! Excessive moisture and high temperatures can occur when the bin temperature is not accurately monitored, which results in damaging the condition of your grain. Though for all my Grain Hazard Monitoring needs I trust Interface Automation. Thanks!!
Very informative short film
The Dressmaker had grain engulfment scene - tragic! Funny though they had the guy on a dare jump in and be just fine on top of wheat but later he drowned jumping in a silo of sorghum? Can a person stay on top of wheat kernels?
Just watched this video am a grain operator at a mill we are never aloud to do top entry because of the reasons in this video to everyone farmers and other grain operators please avoid top entry
Couldn’t they wear a safety harness or build a pole all the way to the top that they could grab onto? Sorry if that’s stupid, I’m not a farmer. Just curious
5:27 terrifying sound
I'm not clear on how or why these accidents happen. Why would someone be in a grain silo when it's being drained from the bottom? What were they trying to demonstrate in the opening scene with the plastic sheets pounded in?
My thoughts exactly. I can't figure out why people enter in silos while they're being drained.
A lot of grain can get stuck to the side of the silo due to moisture. Peiple go in the silo to remove the grain that's stuck. That's when they sink into the grain and suffocate.
Milton Cabrera but they just sink because they go in there while it's being drained or they wouldn't sink otherwise, right?
Question is, why they don't clean the silo when it isn't being drained? Why there is no communication among the workers inside the silo and the ones down there at all?
Laura Squeff That's what I ask myself. They must be doing something that is non farmers don't know.
I think the fact is:
A silos are really big, bigger than we think.
B Silos are drained fast, tons per second fast.
C Silos always get stuck.
So There is a real need for someone to be inside while they are being drained. Then if you are just entering and grain that is stuck on a side just falls off over you, you can't breath under that load. Imagine hundreds of kg over your chest. You don't even yell, you have no air to do it. I thought of a harness but I think that even having a harness to hang in safety would be useless against that, and having someone checking on you wouldn't be fast enough to save you.
I don't know a thing about silos but this is just simple common sense and by what the video shows.
Thanks Des.
every job has its own danger
The Young Turds lol
No not really, tell me the dangers of any office job
@@Neo2266. earthquake, fire, stress etc.
They should use sos transmitters or some type of remote to stop period
Can we have a mesh at the bottomthat allows only grains and not more than 10 inch
Sadly no because the people have to get on the bottom to clean it out but some wagons have that it’s a good idea
psshhhh i got my first job when i was in 3rd grade, i know the feels
Just take a minute to visualize how sad a death like this would be, all you see is pitch black and the heat would be insane..
Wouldn’t literally a harness with a watch/anklet that monitors pressure help? The grain presses the button and then a machine would hoist them up out of the bin with the harness?
Beautiful video, needs subs though
Thanks for your feedback!
I don’t know what “A Quiet Place” refers to, and saw this anyways.
Why not wear a harness? Tie yourself to the top
Love this video
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Not to be technical ted but these are grain bins, silos are completely different, different risks and dangers.
It’s a grain BIN not a silo
You mean You can't diveinto grain like Scrooge McDuck. Glad I saw this before killing myself.
poor document......no resolution proposed or remedies proposed, laws etc
“The Dressmaker” brought me here😒
How is a grain silo dangerous
There’s no oxygen in there
Did you watch the video?
No oxygen, crush, drowning etc.
If we don't deal with us, Mother Nature will.
Corn is dumb anyway
Jeez according to the comments on all these grain silo video comment threads. 1 in 10 people know someone who died this way. 😂
Must be Monsanto hiding the truth *sarcasm*
My fiancée s grandfather turned over his tractor and it almost killed him.
This is why I always carry a microwave.
I'm here cause of Dexter
Life in not like Scrooge McDuck
I’m not gone lie if I was studying agriculture this would’ve made me drop out.
It’s grain bins not silos 😂😂
It's Silos not bins
No it’s a grain bin. Silos are made from cement blocks with metal bands around them
@@n593nw5 thank you 😭😂
@@Neo2266. a silo is tall and skinny and usually store silage, ground corn, a grain bin is short and fat and stores grain
They should pretend they're climbing and scubadiving at the same time.
Kuroi Kenshi oxygen tanks and masks would be a good idea too...do they do that??
@@tomulator Imagine what it would cost and the hassle every time you go in there
Simon Richard you only get one shot if something happens...🤷🏻♂️
@@tomulator oxygen won't do much when your getting crushed
You’d have to be an absolute derelict to die this way. Corn? You died in corn? Was there a corn tornado? Maybe a rogue corn tsunami? No, just a big pile of corn kernels we put in this one spot... and then we died in it. 🥴
What seems inconspicuous is often the most damgerous
I'm wondering if can we install a microphone and system where if you shout a word like "call" it will contact the fire dept (or others) through a radio or a cell phone? Another idea is to install a voice activated trap door, letting the grain out.
To help people who were caught by the augers, why can't we have a wristband with a button that stops the augers from moving, it seems like a simple device to make. If not a wristband, we could install the button on a commonly used tool. We could even make it voice activated too. So if someone yells "help"/"stop" the auger will turn off.
Would any devices like these be useful? Or is the issue mostly that people suffocating from the pressures of the grain and help cannot arrive fast enough?
As a engineering student from a city, (who knows nothing about farms and is learning how to build devices like these) I feel like there has to be some better tools/systems/devices that farmers can use to help mitigate accidents
A wonderful idea, only issue could be the loud noise from the auger and sound waves bouncing off the steel walls. The laborer inside the bin could have a Bluetooth headset on as a safety measure while inside. Not a bad idea
I'm on a friends TH-cam account. I lost my 8 year old boy in the silo. This video to watch was emotional.
I am so sorry
Ive singlehandedly cleaned out an entire grain bin back when I was only 15. It was good work. But my lungs hurt for weeks afterwards (and I was wearing a mask)
Yah I told my dad I was gonna do it (I’m only 13) and I just used common sense
You got grain poisoning.
You need a ventilator more than likely. Like the kind of masks that car painters wear or what folks removing asbestos/insulation typically wear. Also if the filters aren’t swapped regularly then the mask could be allowing in a good deal of air pollution still. Best to supply your own mask and perform maintenance on it as most farms tend to be relaxed on PPE
My cousin died this way back in the 80's.
Long live our farmers!! Agbiag dagiti mannalontayo!! 😊👍
Why don’t they have a harness system that suspends them from the top so they can’t be entrained into the corn if something happened?
They do. Entrapment only happens when someone refuses to do so
money is why they don't have them
Happened this morning in Cambria WI. May his soul be at peace!
I’m only a kid I help clean the bins with my dad I’d say it’s because we don’t want to spend the money on something like that and when careful around it they are pretty safe I mean the center auger has a guard and you should never stand in front of the auger that goes around the bin, so if you stay behind that and be careful you should be fine
Nicholas Fry Complacency is when accidents happen. Please be safe little guy. I hope you never have to be in such a situation.
Safety winch? Harness? Remote control? Or maybe wear a breathing apparatus every time you go in there?
Its not just suffocation, it also crushes you.
kittypewpew to add to that, that stuff is expensive
Safety harness is the best option
Or just have a ladder in the middle and on the sides so you can always reach it, smh
Neo2266 no. when that gain is about up to your knees there is no moving towards a ladder you are STUCK
@@calebdilbeck3317
you don't only move by using your legs do you realize that? you can flop around, lie down, roll...
If you position the ladders so they're always within reach, then only an idiot would drown in corn
Give them walkie talkies and harnesses and I am pretty sure we will see less accidents.
I wish their was a system...as easy as putting on a climbing harness.
With a lifeline and a control,so the second things go south,you just push a button on your chest.
And up you go like Spiderman and out of the grain.
And it pulls you to the top,or however high you need to be to get out of the entrapment.
Like,lightning fast,and with a 1000 lb. cable on the harness...
Sounds crazy,but you see where I'm going,a safety line so you don't get sucked in,buried,ect....
Pulls you out faster than you can get buried,or entrapped...
What a horrible way to go,never will I eat anything with any less respect for those who paid so dearly so I can have cornflakes for breakfast.
Cornflakes are unhealthy
The problem is once the grain gets to your knees it’s very, very difficult to just pull you out. The force on the human body is unreal. You may be able to pull them out if the grain movement is stopped. The problem is the seconds it takes for an emergency egress system to sense the emergency then act the grain is already on top of the person. The weight is wyyyyy too much for even someone with a breathing apparatus to last for too long. Some have last hours, however, they are severely damaged…..there are better designs of silo that address the problems of this and other issues with grain storage. Sadly, it costs too much to replace current grain silos.
I grew up on a horse ranch, we had just got a new oat bin that took an entire semi to fill. I had a friend over and showed him how it works and I opened the bottom latch but the handle came out of its slot. Long story short we spent the next 2 days picking up oats into chicken feed bags. It could have been a lot worse because we were thinking of climbing onto the roof of my barn to jump in; so I am grateful we didn’t. I was 7 lol
Maybe some kind of telescopic tube, snorkel kinda thing could help? Not sure if the weight would be too intense to move and raise it up or anything. I was thinking of quick release lower panels that let's it all spill out straight away? Also some people on here have been mentioning a harness clipped to the ceiling. Very practical idea that. Especially if it had a winch on it to raise you up, yknow?
On average 20 people per year (19.93 to be exact) have died in silo accidents* since 1964
*for those of u wondering about the math for # of deaths from silo accidents since 1964 from the statistic at the end
@2:20 what's he saying, he grew tobacco and striped bacco??
To help people who were caught by the augers, why can't we have a wristband with a button that stops the augers from moving, it seems like a simple device to make. We could even make it voice automated too. So if someone yells "help"/"stop" the auger will turn off. Or can we install a microphone and system where if you shout "call" it will contact someone through a radio or a cell phone? Would this any device like this be useful or is the issue mostly that people suffocating from the pressures of the grain?
you know grain imply pressure to the chest and lungs ?
Grain presses in the chest, also money
Just a little question. Why are they getting inside the bin while there is grain inside???
To clear the edges of grain that didn't funnel out??
I'm sure there is a better way than having to get inside with your shovel.
To monitor moisture
We have to get in with a shovel to clean them out and if grain gets stuck up we have to get in and push it down, so no there is not better practical way
Johnson William Jones Laura Brown Donna
Why dont they just use leg cuffs or body ropes where one end attached to leg and the other end of rope connected to top of the chamber so if ther fall the rope will feel shock and it will send SOS.
Also they will be able to use the rope to get out of Silo.
Thank you farmers.
what the hell..!?we we gonnah eat what?
I can't imagine myself drowning in cereal
We need to be vigilant and keep our eyes open stay safe, use wisdom and trust God 🙏
So basically these farmers need to be more careful at the job site.
You can be careful and still die you know why? Grain will crush you even if you don't go down into the grain
@@maxhallman1036 yes grain can be dangerous and so can alfalfa.