How to save someone in a grain silo

[@lisalynnn]

The only time my grandfather yelled at me in anger was when my little brother and I were playing on top of the silo. We knew better, but I never really considered the danger until he had tears in his eyes after he got us down. He wasn't an emotional man. However, the thought of us dying that way gutted him, and we never broke that rule again.

[@scotthsu2095]

He know something really sad.

[@charliec.3518]

​@@scotthsu2095yeah i was about to say, with that reaction, he probably had someone close die that way before, or perhaps witnessed it once.

[@Asoeee]

How great big sister you are

[@LMIHK]

Thanks Grandpa

[@davidunger9334]

This is not an attack on you or your family, but an example of how "hope" is our ultimate destroyer in society. If your parents would have addressed your desire of exploring the top of that silo in a manner that they controlled, you never would have sought it out on your own in a careless, child-like manner. Nor would you have involved a friend/s in the same carelessness, because you would identify more towards leadership & responsibilty as was done by your parents, leaving much less chance of being clueless or ignorant of the dangers. Glad you were ok & even more with you recognizing the worry in your dad. But he had "hope" that you wouldn't fall off. I prefer having "confidence" that my child no longer feels the need, but if someone around them still insists...then responsibility will be there to confront it. Blah blah blah i shut up & publish book now.🙄🤐

[@muffinconsumer4431]

ALWAYS wear a harness and safety line in silos. Don’t turn our rescues into body recoveries

[@Lambdamale.]

Dude, not far from us fell into one of these without a harness. He was only 18. He's dead.

[@muffinconsumer4431]

@@Lambdamale. A story that I’m all too familiar with. The worst part is that I’ve heard it several times from many different places

[@chasedrewelow1218]

I was young and my dad didn’t bring me to see the body (for obvious reasons) but apparently the dudes brother didn’t hear from him, all he saw when he went up to the top was a snapped line. No body, no harness, nothing, just a line dangling over grain.

[@Codas_Wrld]

I do this work for a living this is bullshit. If you tried to pull someone out with there harness it would rip them in half before they got out. And quite frankly it’s not really as dangerous as they make it sound. I get chest deep 24/7 just wiggle and keep moving 👍

[@synthwavecat96]

​@@Codas_Wrld Confidently incorrect. Just because you have no consideration for your own mortality, that doesn't mean it doesn't go differently for others.

[@scythegaming99]

As someone who didnt grew up around silos....new fear unlocked

[@jcbbb]

just dont go round the bin poopin tommy that's all and youll b safe

[@lucasemanuel5146]

IKR... Until now i thought drowning was scary, but drowning in grains? Slowly getting sucked and die in the pressure without air... Goddamn that's terrifying

[@Madoobe87]

Fear is around you, you just didn't realize it

[@colleendavis1011]

Went to the comments to say exactly this.

[@ericconrad8854]

good be afraid of more stuff.

[@rlcuda]

You'd never think that something as seemingly harmless and wholesome as a grain silo can drown you, crush you, and explode.

[@OhSkyeLanta]

Sugar and salt silos too 💀

[@Thomas-15212-R]

I saw a grain elevator fire years ago and the fire spread and grew hotter and hotter despite several alarms of firefighters working until... the burning units blew! A fireball as big as the whole grain elevator, and its smoke rose and lifted skyward and downwind. A blazing pallet settled into a parking lot blocks away. Yet no neighboring homes as close as the next block were damaged the whole afternoon.

[@squishyushi]

My dad almost died in a grain silo as a teen, he said his lungs never worked the same and he’ll never go in one again

[@dianaschafer3146]

It is bittersweet watching this video. I lost a very dear friend years ago to a grain bin accident. I still get tears remembering that horrible day.

[@SouthernDunesHome]

My deepest condolences! It is heart breaking! Special bonds carry loss that last a lifetime. I only can imagine the pain. I hope you are able to find solace in sharing in activities that brought joy or you are able to engage in a positive tribute. Take Care.

[@azpersonal]

Omg😢 so sorry 🤍

[@SkankHunt8008]

😂

[@rickimhotep1236]

A old classmate of mine lost his only son like this 3 years ago.

[@amodernphoenix]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Can only imagine how difficult it must be to think of that day.

[@cha0tic_neutral_system]

As a ex-farm kid. Do not fuck around in grain silos. They can cause grain fires super easy just from the friction of grain falling on itself and producing heat. As soon as you are buried up to your chest there isn’t enough room for your lungs to expand because of how heavy the grain is. Do not struggle just call for help, it’s like quicksand but much worse. Always wear harnesses. Always tell people if you are going into a silo to watch out for you.

[@klujics123]

No smoking

[@Kevin_the_Caveman]

Also, really large silos can accumulate gas and explode

[@thomaswengler5568]

Can you simply lay flat in the surface and wait, or will you drown then, too?

[@VoodooTrashPanda]

There was a story in an engineering safety class about someone who was trapped in a grain silo without a harness. His buddy grabbed his arm and held on until help could arrive, but he had been dead for several minutes and his shoulder was horribly dislocated. So not only did he drown, he was in immense pain during his final moments too… … I became a lot more wary of grain silos after that…

[@paulweston8184]

@@thomaswengler5568 How are you going to lay flat?

[@justapillow2443]

If you told child me that you were more likely to die by a silo than by quicksand, he'd think you were full of it lol

[@evadently5072]

he?

[@garyedwards5624]

@@evadently5072yeah, op is a male. So “he” and past he would identify as he. It’s grammatically correct and factual if he would have actually thought that.

[@evadently5072]

@@garyedwards5624 ባደረካቸው ድርጊቶች ምክንያት ቤተሰቦችዎ ደሙን ያፈሳሉ ፡፡ ለድርጊቶችዎ የዘላለም ሥቃይ ይሰማቸዋል ፡፡ ያፈሰሱ እንባዎች ወደ ደም ይለወጣሉ ፣ የሚሰማቸው ህመም ሊቋቋሙት የማይችሉት ይሆናሉ ፡፡ በቅርቡ ለብቻዎ ትሆናላችሁ

[@Mari-2570]

@@evadently5072you really reported someone for answering your stupid ahh question? 💀

[@rick5793]

I grew up in farming area in Illinois and sadly have know several people who didn't make it from grain bins and it's a sad day.

[@wopbapaloobam]

I feel bad for the grains

[@bruv4266]

​@@wopbapaloobam wtf bro

[@gamerstart-yx1tm]

​@@wopbapaloobam????

[@瘰]

fr wtf ​@@bruv4266

[@cococj80]

@@wopbapaloobamfr like Ew dirty human next to me

[@GramGramAnimations]

This hurts to see. The first person I knew my age that died passed in a grain silo on his family’s farm. He was a senior in high school at the time. One of the nicest guys from a small town

[@FortuneSushi]

Im so sorry to hear. :( Gone too soon.

[@patrickmurray9359]

Not one of the smartest though! RIP

[@x-x4260]

that seems like a terrifying way to die :(

[@BlueRazor69]

My dad grew up in rural NJ. A kid fell in a grain silo and drowned when they were in high school. It’s no joke

[@greenbean2222]

Guarantee that was the same story above.

[@Thunderstryk]

I can confirm, I am the kid

[@-_-John-_-]

Did he drown? Or was he suffocated?

[@jasonjones7205]

​@-_-John-_- These people saying he drowned are giving me a headache. 🤦‍♂️

[@scottashe984]

Gonorrhea is no joke. Herpes on the other hand..

[@JoJoDaClown2]

Many people watching this have no association with farming and silos. I was in 2nd grade when my best friend died exactly due to this situation. It was a mind numbing experience that event to this day I recall and hate thinking about. This short made me recall the distress and confusion I had at the time, and amplified the wonder that I happened of what he experienced. He was the nicest kid I'd ever met, and the fact that I was a kid moving district to district every year, I can confidently say the world is worse off without him.

[@meldog7925]

😢

[@gmvalentine626]

I'm so sorry.

[@patiencedavis3524]

Thank you for sharing his memory, he appreciates you

[@icephoenix452]

This is one of those deaths that “seem so ridiculous” but is sadly very dangerous and lots of people are probably mocking the deaths

[@flytre7]

definitely life changing

[@georgerobins4110]

It’s pretty much quicksand. I always hate when people mock any kind of death because that person probably left loved ones behind 😢

[@CarPitStop]

No one is mocking their deaths. Stop making things up.

[@shroomy666]

@@CarPitStop​ Take a look at the other top comments. People saying shit like “I feel sorry for the grains”. There’s definitely people mocking the deaths.

[@CarPitStop]

@@shroomy666 Where is that comment? I don't see that anywhere.

[@seb1520]

It’s genuinely fucking wild how common deaths are from grain silos

[@newCoCoY6]

Why are people inside silos anyway when it's unloading?

[@rickimhotep1236]

I'd like to know the purpose/necessity of folks to get ontop of the grain? Can't they use robots are design the silos differently?

[@TheRagingAura]

​@rickimhotep1236 those are WAY too expensive for the vast majority of people working around a silo. The problem is sometimes a clog occurs in the silo they need to clear, and they just either are so comfortable with the precedure they become complacent and make mistakes, are just inept and make mistakes, or simply an accident occurs causing a fall. The amount pf people that die is not in indicator of how OFTEN it occurs, rather how DEADLY it is, it just kills so often compared to how often people survive. Accidents happen, it just depends on how easy it is to survive said accident. People can theoretically die simply falling from standing height, but how often have you slipped or fell without dying. Probably alot. Now imagine if instead you would have died about 90% of the time that happened.

[@paulmarwood4325]

Also confined spaces due to low oxygen content or foul gases.

[@Mischievous_Moth]

@@philipdupont2308 Kinda makes me wonder if maybe there's a better way to store grain and whatnot that we might be able to figure out. Why DO we store grain in silos specifically anyway?

[@melissaphillips8064]

My nephew was trapped in a grain silo along with his co-worker. My nephew managed to get out but his friend did not. His last words to my nephew were " tell my wife I love her". My nephew now has nightmares about how he could not save his friend and coworker.

[@waydennn]

Damn r.i.p your friend😢

[@Phantomblood279]

Rip ❤😢

[@zebra1210]

I am sorry…RIP❤

[@aryatararokde]

Rip❤

[@ogredwing]

Personally I would have gone with "Tell my wife, I have another wife"

[@vesoha]

As a impressionable kid from the countryside, i have an mental list of things my dad warned me about. Grain silos, septic tanks, rip currents and the bog next to our home are still things i link together whenever i see videoes like this.

[@marlenebean]

Can you explain the septic tank? Also what even is a boy? Lol I grew up in a city

[@marlenebean]

*Bog

[@asmr-sensei]

New fear unlocked: Drowning in corn

[@loizospapaloizou9494]

I looked for this comment 🎉

[@RabbitsInBlack]

Now imaging the Dust. BOOM. Explodes. Grain Silos explode if the right amount of air to dust.

[@LucfxGambitGaming]

You sound like you're riddled with fears

[@loizospapaloizou9494]

@@LucfxGambitGaming I think it's just a trend. They say "new fear unlocked" and they hope to gather likes. This why for something so remote as falling in a silo I actively looked for this comment. It had to be there.

[@TSJF-q5j]

I thought the same thing

[@donlavender4192]

One of my wife’s cousins disobeyed his parents and played on the grain bin. This was many years ago. He fell in and the grain swallowed him. He suffocated. His parents later couldn’t find him. They eventually remembered warning him to stay off the grain bin. They angered the grain out filling wagons. They to their horror found his body. This account was shared by family members for years. This boy was their only son. His parents were never ever the same. They stayed with us for several days years ago. They are both gone now.

[@bigjimmy2997]

I can really relate as i lost my only son too... May they all rest in peace.😢

[@ashleyobrien4937]

you been drinkin ?

[@babidavi6910]

​@@ashleyobrien4937 completely thoughtless comment

[@greenbean2222]

​@@bigjimmy2997 I'm so sorry.

[@EL-13]

@@ashleyobrien4937😂😂😂

[@richardm6704]

The one time I went into a grain bin, I had to be attached to a harness that was attached to a safety line that went up to a servo. The farmer measured from my boots to my knees, I asked him why and he said that if I sank further than that the servo would automatically pull me out. Cool trick. The grain bin was empty, I was resealing the concrete pad after the steel floor was pulled out. His insurance made everyone wear the safety line attached to the servo with the proper measurement dialed in even when the bin was not in service.

[@alexanderkozhevnikov8615]

i enjoyed this anecdote, thank you for sharing

[@TheWayofKen]

The other danger being bad air/insufficient oxygen.

[@jamesk3612]

How common do people actually need to Enter/go on top of grain silos?

[@richardm6704]

@@jamesk3612 a few times a month to a few times a year. Mostly for inspections to make sure the product is good, there are no issues with water, and rodents are staying out.

[@Rabanestre101]

​@jamesk3612 it's an around the year deal. Depending on what the farmer grows and location. Those things are always in use unless it's cleaning, repairs for selling day. Again it's dependent on farmers and how they run their farm. Gotta ask one directly to know their story on everyday work

[@ictogon]

My toxic trait is thinking i could easily climb out

[@StinkyFilthy]

You would sink further into the grain if you struggled and if somehow someone tried pulling you out you would most likely either drag them in with you or get ripped in half

[@oblivionpro69]

@@StinkyFilthy Stop making stuff up, you would not get "ripped in half" the corn is not sucking you in with enough force to withstand a counter force that could rip you in half. You just wouldn't be able to be pulled out by someone unless they were harnessed and probably not even then.

[@doofus33]

Sure buddy

[@StinkyFilthy]

@@oblivionpro69 I’m not making stuff up and I’m not saying that it’s possible at all It’s all about a somehow and a likely hypothesis, no need for the rudeness

[@katzea.a7880]

​@@StinkyFilthyAt no point you revealed that this was an hypothesis of yours, not only are you talking mad shit but also back pedaling.

[@djdoc06]

Terrifying. I finally understand. You’re denser than any grain (because the air pockets, edit: I guess it’s called “pore space”) so any movement to readjust, just means you sink more. Because your movements essentially “fluidizes” the grain and you sink into a “liquid” that is less dense than you AND has so much resistance. Impossible to “swim” up against it because you can’t generate power against so much resistance. So it’s critical not to move until rescue comes. Yeah, terrifying.

[@dwellandearnest]

Wow, thank you so much, you explained it so well and so easy to understand

[@zhabo3963]

This is an amazing comment. Thank you.

[@stephenfennell]

djdoc's comment sounds logical, i.e.stay absolutely motionless. Can anyone confirm it?

[@everesthaven-cs2cw]

Thank you

[@ayoiji7731]

New fear unlocked

[@DustinHansen-i4v]

I've been stuck with a coworker in this situation and thank God for the rescue teams we lived.

[@rotten6345]

I know I’m late but did it hurt??? What does it feel like to be suffocating in that

[@dumbguy6843]

I remember my brother and i jumping in grain bins and playing in them all the time back in the 90s... Thank God we made ot out

[@FoxQueen13853]

God was on your side!

[@Kunshgupta0110]

The people who are saving are just built different 🗿🗿 that they aren't submerged in it 😂😂

[@JChan-ru2hf]

I grew up on a farm. It never failed- every year someone fell in and died. So traumatic at school when you’d hear the principals heels and someone crying in the hallway… you just always said a quick prayer that it wasn’t your dad. Sometimes the corn creates a hard fermented top. People think they can walk on it and then fall through.

[@rsetha01]

Can I ask why people go in it the first place? Cleaning? Adding more grains?

[@busterdog321]

​@@rsetha01Hungry for the forbidden corn

[@sandykelsey6734]

OMG

[@Raven-DT]

​@@busterdog321 They yearn for the kern.

[@ShadowTheHedgehog1-s3e]

​@@busterdog321legends say the forbidden corn lets you meet the legendary corn people of the lost city of Cornucopia

[@slurpeegood7549]

My fear of quicksand has been reegnighted

[@justanotherguy469]

IT WAS A BIG THING IN THE 1970S.

[@30pranaypawar17]

😳💯

[@emikochan13]

much worse than quicksand, you can float on that if you relax

[@ivoryowl]

Quicksand isn't nearly as dangerous as hollywood makes it to be.

[@DSiren]

More people die in quickgrain than quicksand. The whole reason the quicksand trope is beneficial to society is because of the grain industry.

[@TJ24050]

I grew up around my uncles and grandparents farm. Worked with them right after high school for a few months before I left for the army. My uncle and I were about to empty out a few grain bins. I walk up smoking a cigarette and he tells me to put it out before I go in or I’ll blow myself up and that I’ll sink in the corn and die if I’m not careful. I believed him, he wasn’t one to bullshit me. Grain dust explosions and suffocating in silos are real things my dad’s/uncle’s cousin died in a silo back in the 70’s. Grain is like quick sand except you never become buoyant, you just keep sinking deeper and deeper and I’ve walked in them. With every step you go alittle deeper and if you can’t pull yourself up using the rebar around the inside walls, you just keep sinking with every movement.

[@Luigi-jy7wq]

I've never heard about this before. Do you keep sinking in grain bin even without moving?

[@stevnated]

Would you sink if you lay on your back? Like floating on water?

[@monikameyer6154]

Eine Mehlstaubexplosion genau so verrückt 😢

[@topspeed250k5]

Except that all the rescue workers are walking around on the grain. They're not sinking with every movement.

[@montebrodie4086]

Once in a while, I had to work on fire alarms in grain elevators. Workmate walked across the top of the grain in a large silo to get to the other side. Later in the day, one of the workers told us we would have to climb ladders to get to the top of those silos because they were empty. Workmate almost had a heart attack when he realized he had walked on top of the crust on a 80 foot silo that was empty.

[@jimmytrex0920]

Here in Alberta, the farm safety demonstration taught us a lot of things, like “one seat one rider” (which we mostly ignored) but we NEVER ignored the grain silo one. That shit looked scary af.

[@BOBCAT4224]

Me realizing my cousins and i as children were literally fucking around with one of the worst possible ways to die

[@noofey]

Right up the street from the home I grew up in, there were 2 silos for soybean meal. They made feed for cattle and chickens, etc. A man was up top, the two connected, there was a walk there between the two. He ended up somehow falling into one of the silos and even called his wife from inside to say goodbye. Those silos are still there, still working, and I still think of it when I go visit my dad.

[@mrartdeco]

He can still call his wife and still can’t be rescued? how fast do someone drown in a silo?

[@noofey]

@mrartdeco Apparently, very quickly. It wasn't just sitting there full. Meal was being poured in, and he slipped in. These silos are also huge, and they had to cut the bottom. Showing up didn't take long, but cutting through to get him did.

[@mrartdeco]

@@noofey damn… new fear unlocked

[@Vengeful1oh1]

Seeing anyone in a grain silo makes it hard for me to breathe and I pray for those that didn’t make it out alive.

[@Cramblit]

It's incredible how dangerous grain silos are.. from fire hazards, to acting like quick sand, and even explosive potential.

[@marcbow]

Yet another horrifying aspect of a how fragile our mortality can be and how quickly things can go south on an otherwise innocent day for somebody.

[@Syntex366]

The reason this happens is because grain beads are very large and very light, and because of their shape there is a lot of air gaps. So when something heavy like a person is on top of them, those air gaps allow the grain to easily shift, so you quite literally sink through them like a liquid. If you’ve ever seen those videos of liquid sand baths that blow air through sand to make it behave like a liquid, grain basically does that on its own.

[@benunderwood6525]

This is false. You can easily walk on the grain just like you can walk on a beach. You only get stuck when they start emptying it from the bottom. That is why all the rescuers in the video can stand on the grain.

[@davidtipton7234]

This is false. I work on farms my whole life and have been in many grain bins. When the augers are running emptying the bin. You can get stuck. And also bins are for drying the grain so the mills will take it. It has to be a certain moisture content. So big fans are running blowing up from the bottom. When those fans are on and running you can get stuck.

[@dontghostbanmeplz8788]

This is false, because the previous 2 comments said so!

[@davidtipton7234]

@@dontghostbanmeplz8788 Well he's partly right. About the air. It just doesn't do it on its own. The big air drying fans introduce the air.

[@ShawnPapp]

@@benunderwood6525

[@blackandblack7]

we never had silos so i didn’t even know this was possible, it’s such a scary way to go and i was surprised to see so many stories from people. we’d lay our grain outside in a very shallow pool for a few days and it would never go any higher than my knee length as a child. i will never forget the feeling of warm grain against my skin during sunset and my mom yelling at me to go inside for dinner.

[@MissingDeeds]

New fear unlocked: falling into a grain silo even tho you never been in one. Got it.

[@a016202]

I grew up in the Midwest surrounded by farms. I won a contest in elementary school in the 70s for making a poster and slogan (can’t remember it now) about staying safe in grain silos. They displayed my poster in the local grocery store.

[@kimberlyrobinson3992]

Cool!

[@Adonis8685._.]

Why don't they put nets above the grain?

[@aaliyah1043]

Because they have to step on the grain and move the grain around so it doesn’t get stuck to anything and when they are emptying it they have to make sure that it’s not getting stuck

[@memedwithmemes3917]

So the rescue team can go in and save you, Silly!

[@ss_jboi309]

@@memedwithmemes3917be honest did you think before you typed this

[@prodpho3nix]

@@ss_jboi309I don’t think you’ve heard of sarcasm

[@RyujinKotakuonari]

It's def not sarcasm lmao​@@prodpho3nix

[@D4veJap4n]

This brings back memories. My friend was playing at my dad's farm waiting for me while I ate my tea, my dad found out he was out on his own and ran out the kitchen to the silos hoping he wasn't there. He wasn't. No big deal. Pretty good day actually.

[@Edifer2020]

My coworker died this way. God bless his soul.

[@jonahbranch5625]

"one and a half bushels per minute" I love imperial units, they sound sound like if I asked a toddler to make up a unit of measure.

[@samueltorres3271]

For real tf is that shit

[@TYSON729]

Bushels is how we measure grain muppet

[@jonahbranch5625]

@@TYSON729 yeah, obviously. Thanks for your insightful input.

[@D4rkc14ymor3]

​@jonahbranch5625 we never asked for the opinions of people who never worked on a farm. Thanks for your ignorant input though dipshit. That works two ways.

[@fongdimbulator]

Apparently, it's about 36 metric liters. I assumed it was a weight measurement but apparently a bushel is used to measure all sorts of types of grains and produce so it's a standardized volume measurement rather than weight.

[@LoLa-OR]

As a 10-11 year old I used to play around in the grain bins in the small town my Mother moved us to. To this day I don't know how I survived doing that.

[@slithre]

My dad was a farmer and I remember playing in these silos with my cousins when I was little. We obviously made sure the auger wasn’t on but I didn’t realize how dangerous this still was. We would literally jump off the ladder inside the silo from about 15 or so ft into the grain and play around. Glad nothing bad ever happened.

[@Britishperson131]

I was once going through an old family photo album when I was very young and spotted two young boys both smiling happily away and when I asked who they were my grandfather said “oooooh that’s your great uncle *such and such*” who was actually a cousin of my late grand mother. I didn’t know the guy but I asked who the older boy was and he said “ah that’s *such and such* he fell into a silo a year or so after the picture was taken and he sadly died. I think of that lad no older than 11 or 12 every now and then. To think everyone who knew him has now past away and no one visits his grave is very sad. Unfortunately my grandfather passed away not to long after that so I wasn’t even able to ask for his name again so I could make a note of it. I just pray that his memory lives on, maybe in a distant part of my family somewhere.

[@JmarieD]

You might be able to find a news article online.

[@theskyizblue2day431]

You don’t need to worry about all that because there is an afterlife and if you don’t believe it, just ask those who have died and came back.

[@ElectricOrange]

I like how they even call the walls “Great Wall of rescue” like its pulled out of a super hero kids show

[@johannek8380]

Mizu5 spotted ??

[@leonardostewart3547]

If i was still a kid and discovered this i wouldn't be here.

[@JustDaniel6764]

Me neither 😂 I'd of jumped straight in thinking it was gonna be such fun

[@georgerobins4110]

This is why you don’t leave children on farms without supervision lmao

[@lleexxii]

It happens all the time..really sad

[@TheRealJimmyLOL]

"Great wall of rescue" is such a good name 😭

[@alexandreacook9436]

Why don't grain silo have grates inside that people can stand on but that the grain can pass through?

[@carolgrier7774]

Good idea.

[@carolgrier7774]

Good idea.

[@LaoFarm]

yeah!

[@Striped-bass]

Money comes first before safety with most companies 🙁

[@romanj5256]

Because climbing inside a full silo was never necessary

[@tanyah.9131]

And my generation grew up thinking quicksand was a major problem. Never realized grain acted in the same way 😬

[@charlesfail8531]

You never sink past your waist in quicksand. From what i hear. But a bog is real just sinking into mud. So it should be quickmud?

[@mjp152]

At first I heard "they immidiately become *angered* to the grain" and I thought to myself "well yeah, I suppose I would be a bit miffed as well in that situation" 😆

[@xcorcordiumx]

That grain looks so welcoming. I can see a kid wanting to jump in.

[@unclefuddelmer8611]

I'm now 75yo. As a 10yo living on a farm in central ILLINOIS, 2 young neighbor brothers playing in on top a shelled corn silo , the younger fell in and his older brother jumped into save him But they both died. Sooo sad. They found nothing close by long enough ( stick, hoe, shovel, Nothing that older brother could've used to reach into pull his brother out. SOOO HORRIBLE❗️

[@wolf-1346]

Very sad 🙏🙏🙏

[@hero2939]

RIP them 🙏

[@Lol99410]

Wow a 75! I can’t believe you know how to use KZbin. Sorry to hear that man😔

[@Difficultcat7000]

Hope the family is doing well

[@amarjeetpaul5418]

Om Shanti!

[@TheeGoatCrusader]

My toxic trait is telling me I could somehow survive this

[@justsomeguywithamustach]

Put your hand over your nose to make an air pocket

[@KBzaz]

@@justsomeguywithamustachcongrats you have 2 breaths worth of air… at most.

[@justsomeguywithamustach]

@@KBzaz better than nothing

[@DavidMarkun]

​@@justsomeguywithamustach The grain works like a boa constrictor: when you exhale, it takes up the space around your ribs. Eventually it ratchets around all the possible ways that you might expand your lungs, and regardless of how much air is in front of your face, you have no way to take it in.

[@justsomeguywithamustach]

@@DavidMarkun 👍

[@KawaiiandDark]

My husband worked in a warehouse where there was something similar & this guy wasn't paying attention & almost made my husband fall in So of course my husband immediately reported this because he wasn't risking his life over a job just because some kid didn't car about safety procedures The kid got fired on the spot & my husband ended up working with an older gentleman instead, apparently it wasn't his 1st time being careless just the 1st time someone reported it Some of the guys have my husband flak about "getting some poor kid fired" But he just reminded them that that "poor kid" could've killed him with his actions & he wasn't going to leave me widowed before marrying me or anytime soon if he could help it (we were engaged at the time)

[@Ginhavekidsinbasement]

That feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow

[@Flewinjapan]

you will genuinely never catch me near one of these, they’re so terrifying

[@uncle-epicurus]

That's definitely in the top 10 of worst ways to die.

[@cookiecutter5176]

Suffocating on particles big as grain sounds absolutely agonizing and horrifying

[@FernandoPerez-zx2vz]

So basically this is telling us we are 100% dead if we fall into a grain silo unless we get a professional team rescuing us at that same moment

[@lyngokweed]

Actually jus letting you know...what not to do...etc...then hopefully help gets there in time

[@Chzydawg]

Or you use a bit of common sense and use some PPE (ie a harness)

[@sicknado]

Yes.

[@teaplease985]

GREAT WALL OF RESCUE 🔥🔥

[@Mochichu22]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS😂🤣

[@НургулКошбакова]

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[@brucenh9076]

I once got caught in grain like this as a boy. Not in a silo, but in one of those gravity grain wagons. Scary stuff.

[@rotten6345]

Does it hurt???

[@blakejones7103]

It's great that this is being shared, to show one of the many dangers. For people, like me who clean grain silos and does rescue for confine spaces.

[@ML-sj3gi]

Surely this is something that should be taken care of at the grainn silo design stage.

[@skinnytoadd1820]

You say surely without looking into the subject at all. Your word carries no weight

[@deadLEE15]

@@skinnytoadd1820 You so confidently criticize his comment, without asking yourself if he has a point. There may be a simple design fix, such as making cross beams throughout the silo, or rope ladders, etc. Your lack of adding anything productive to the conversation discredits you.

[@Ketaminogue]

@@deadLEE15I’m not an engineer but I’d posit the idea that you could construct the silo with multiple removable mesh floors at different heights. The grain could fall through without impedance, and if someone fell then they wouldn’t be able to sink too far. And if people needed to go deeper into the silo for cleaning, the floor panels could be removed?

[@happyjohn354]

@@Ketaminogue Well you would need to reinforce the walls to put the mounting points for those floor panels and now you have effectively doubled the price and installation time for what is essentially a giant storage bin. Also your idea would likely slow down how fast you can fill and empty the silo as grain needs to now flow through those panels.

[@sovietmoose5624]

Grain silos need to hold fucktons of weight and you think wire grate flooring would double the cost?

[@hunterbrincefield8273]

I’ve worked on grain bins you can swim in it if you do end up getting in one if you sink lay flat and crawl it’s hard to do but it’s better than trying to crawl up

[@theo67-ft3yx]

Sounds like you won't get a chance to lie on top of it, because you'll be submerged standing straight up, and won't be able to lift yourself out of it. What a horrible situation!

[@FRProductions21]

Hey! I’m grain bin rescue certified with the Great Wall of rescue! The specifics are really down to the point to the fact that we have to have a wireless brush drill for the auger!

[@V1NC11_]

My toxic trait is me thinking I can free myself from the grain with no help

[@ejmelayo]

This is really good information. Now the next time I fall into a green silo, I won’t be worried.

[@matthewbecker7389]

This took me down a small rabbit hole. Wikipedia calls this phenomenon "grain entrapment",or "grain engulfment". 2010 grain related fatalities reached an all-time high of 31 people... Not sure if that's globally or just on the one farm. And just like that, i now have a phobia of being trapped by grain... And i don't trust legumes or lentils either.

[@tomy.1846]

This will be my new nightmare tonight! Terrible!

[@allonsopia]

hello fellow 911 lone star guys

[@murtadagreatestever]

I was going to write that😅

[@benzlenker681]

Which sec? How do you recognize him?

[@Cyseroo]

Imagine your pinky toe gets sliced off when they were applying the barrier thingy

[@Sham-t6i]

Guys here is a tip to survive if you fall don't panic and place both hands firmly over your mouth to create and airway before you get fully submerged and don't try to get our alone you will sink even more keep your hands over your mouth and breath normally then you can scream for help

[@ellie_may106]

i swr thats the exact same thing from one if them zachfilms videos

[@muffinconsumer4431]

@@Sham-t6i Here’s a tip: Don’t go into grain silos without safety equipment

[@Miko2030]

⁠@@muffinconsumer4431 Keyword *fall* its not like they just walked into the grain. 🧍‍♂️

[@benunderwood6525]

This is bad advice. You only sink when they are emptying the bin. It packs around you like a vacuum. You die when it gets to your chest because once you breathe out you can't breathe in again due to the pressure on your chest. The grain never gets to your mouth.

[@AtlineR]

No, it doesn't help as the grain eventually pushes your lungs to the point you just can't make a single breath

[@SpatuleJunior]

Wtf i think one clip shows a dead body judging on the swollen hands

[@salmapamyu9259]

I THOUGHT THE SAME

[@silantroCW]

yeah I was searching if someone else noticed

[@brentcrebs35]

I saw that too

[@controversialverdict]

Looks like it might be, but the guy survived. Happened in February 2023 in Australia. Reported in The Weekend Australian later that year. The 78-year-old man was saved in large part by two police officers who received a community hero award

[@SW-gf6zl]

'bushels per minute' had me laughing😅 Those old-fashioned imperial units sound so hilarious 😅 (to me, somebody from the wide metric world)

[@Eddie-ev9bv]

Yes indeed, it is so hard to believe that the "bushel" is still in use in some Third World Countries. Any student in a developed country would have no idea what a bushel could be!

[@ValleryRastr]

Until this moment i thought bushels exist only in universe of Rebel Moon. 😂

[@texasgravy7336]

My toxic trait is thinking I could walk across the grain

[@Godisknockingx]

Why not put a big screen on top of the opening with 6 inch screen holes. Grain get by easily and people never fall in.

[@EC_Lygas]

I like how the panels are called “THE GREAT WALL OF RESCUE”

[@celdo84]

How come the rescuers can stand safely on the grain without sinking? What will happen in a real scenario??

[@muffinconsumer4431]

@@celdo84 Rescuers have safety lines. They can stand on the grain without sinking because they’ll be supported by ropes.

[@win_cie]

They were bitten by the elves from lord of the rings

[@remilemaire7601]

Because you can walk without any problem on grain (it is like sand, your feet just get a bit deeper because it is not as dense), the issues would be if you are in the silo while it is getting filled as shown at the start of the video Why would anyone enter a silo while it is getting filled is something that makes me wonder

[@georgerobins4110]

@@win_ciewhat?

[@georgerobins4110]

@@remilemaire7601no, it’s not just when it is getting filled, it’s also when it is getting emptied, and I believe it’s common to be in the silo while emptying it so you can help the grain start moving again if it gets stuck. You’re supposed to wear a safety harness and have someone else with you, though

[@Meowy15]

Pro tip to never die in a grain silo: Don't fall in

[@Francine5522]

Yo what about those kids in A Quiet Place movie !!! 😅😅😂

[@xynt8195]

The grain won't swollen you. Stop moving too much and wait for help. I've been this situation working as part time silo cleaner.

[@georgerobins4110]

Some people panic tho, which is how deaths happen

[@shanetuma3845]

I still believe Grain Death would be an awesome name for a band.

[@michaeltheoret3842]

Have that Band play some kind of Heavy Metal/Country Western Blend of Music. Can You just imagine the likes of Ozzy Osborne or Alice Cooper singing loudly, amid the LOUD playing of drums, electric guitars and synthesizers, at the top of Their lungs about Cows, Tractors and losing His Farm through foreclosure, His Wife to another Man (who is able to hold on to His Farm successfully) and His Pickup Truck to the Repo Man because of the truck payment being severely delinquent? Hey, this could catch on and become a "Thing"! 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheWayofKen]

Working on grain ships as a longshoreman we did a lot manual topping up of loads with these heavy/awkward blowers. Most of us were blissfully unaware of any danger other than breathing the dust.

[@gaz6629]

How often does this happen that there is purpose built equipment for this scenario 💀

[@diamondcreeperlh]

Happens quite a lot

[@ProfitHound]

i love how to save someone stuck in grain... everyone jumps into the grain as well... they even have a latter on that one panel as if he cant climb out using it, they have go use an auger... i need to jump in a silo

[@corpingtons]

Crazy stuff

[@Amy-n9l1v]

When I use to work on a farm I was told about how dangerous it is working with large quantities of grain gave me nightmares

[@laurenk94]

There’s one of those ‘I shouldn’t be alive’ type episodes on KZbin about a guy falling in one, it was an insane reenactment of his rescue and really showed how fast things can go wrong.

[@fivejedis]

Did yall just show a dead person? Those bloated hands and discoloration of the skin tells me that's a dead person.

[@Codm005-y3o]

fr i'm shocked noboby was talking about it

[@ketchupgod3727]

My friend dug a hole in the beach once and asked us to bury him in it. Same effect happened and we barely got him out.

[@stephenfennell]

Yes, I think burying people in the sand at the beach for fun can be much more dangerous than it looks at first. I think the key problem is if the person is buried too deep, their chest can't move in and out to breathe. This reminds me of children thinking it is fun to wrap someone in long lengths of plastic or a roll of carpet. It looks harmless, but the plastic or carpet won't move and won't allow the person's chest to expand to breathe.

[@giftofthewild6665]

​@@stephenfennell when wrapped in a carpet there's no way to wrap it tight enough to prevent breathing. The carpet isn't flexible enough to conform to your body shape. While it's around your shoulders it creates enough space for your chest to move. Plastic wrap could theoretically kill you though if it was wrapped tight enough.

[@unoreverse130]

I swear we use anything but the metric system

[@baskerzeke]

My cousin died this way as a child. I’m glad they are sharing the dangers of it.

[@Smiling_styling_ostrich]

If you hold your hand in front of your nose to the point where no grain can get in and it's just air, can you live like that? Or would the pressure of the grain suffocate you or is it somehow airtight

[@muffinconsumer4431]

@@Smiling_styling_ostrich The pressure of the grain would eventually press on your chest so much that you would no longer be able to take in a breath, even if you had scuba gear

[@Smiling_styling_ostrich]

@@muffinconsumer4431 I figured, but wanted to make sure! Thank you

[@prowler_2704]

In india, we store grain in gunny bags, that way, we doing have to worry about silo problems if there is no silo at all

[@j12325]

Because this system is costly for Indian farmers

[@CharuNyashandjillu]

​@@j12325 Atleast indian technology doesn't kill people

[@j12325]

@@CharuNyashandjillu what is this counter comment. Make no sense

[@zeppelin3982]

Am I cocky for thinking I could get out of the easy ? 😂

[@saaaalmon]

Not really, I think you just don't understand how it works well enough 😅😂

[@khadacoveiro1363]

I want you to ask yourself the same thing, but instead of a Silo, It's the Bite of a crocodile

[@emare7851]

Yes. You are not invincible always be grateful to The Powers That Be for your health

[@IStoleYourToasterSorry]

Ya

[@georgerobins4110]

I think you more just don’t understand the amount of pressure involved here lol You might as well be stuck in hardened cement that also drags you under lol It’s basically quicksand

[@alexandrepeight1491]

important to note, this only happens if the augers are moving grain from the bottom of the silo. most of the time its safe to walk on grain

[@SpatuleJunior]

Please dont show clips of dead people, the third clip is clearly a deceased person

[@michaeltheoret3842]

I guess that You've never had to sit through some of the older OSHA Safety Videos or very graphic descriptions of what happens when Safety Protocols aren't STRICTLY adhered to, huh? I still have Nightmares now and then from those fricking Things. Sometimes, a shocking or graphic video or description is necessary, albeit unpleasant, to get the point across. Oh well, better to have a few Nightmares here and there than to BE DEAD. I actually have a phobia about woodworking power tools. Yes, I have been able to control this phobia and use these types of tools, but I am definitely acutely aware of this phobia.

[@SpatuleJunior]

@@michaeltheoret3842 my school used to force us to watch shindlers list and that shit traumatized me but what im saying is that theres kids on this app so it should have a trigger warning

[@Kai-Jones-Music]

@@SpatuleJunior They're going to have to learn about it at some point. It's a natural part in life. There's no use in shielding children from it if chances are, they already know about it. Most children know about death, especially with games like fortnite and that where the point of those games are literally to kill everyone.

[@SpatuleJunior]

@Kai-Jones-Music theres an age and a time for everything, we should protect the young until they are old enough to not be traumatized by it

[@Kai-Jones-Music]

@ we should, yes. It doesn’t mean it’s happening. As mentioned before, Video games, movies, TV shows, everything kids know and love all have death featured with them. Rather than being “old enough to be traumatized by it”, they should be taught that it’s natural and not an abnormal sighting. And that statement is completely untrue, no one is too old to be traumatized and even then, it takes a lot to get traumatized, one photo won’t cut it.

[@the_real_swiper]

Why stepping in the silo in the first place?

[@JDFMXRTIN]

To clean a blockage

[@mikh7155]

People fall into them for many reasons commonly it is usually sombody doing maintenance

[@dlmccallie93]

Lots of maintenance

[@rarelycold6618]

Plenty of reasons to be in a grain bin. Taking moisture samples, working on equipment, leveling out the crop for better drying. Working in rice, I've never come across this issue before.

[@themoreiragequitthemoreihv4234]

What if the person has really long footsies and they stab their foot

[@jelol1786]

Losing a foot is way better than dying from being crushed in the silo

[@Charliechorizo]

Don't fall into a grain silo. Got it!

[@Zentico_AKS74U]

Instructions unlclear: the rescuers got stuck