Ten central Nebraska teenagers spent Tuesday and Wednesday on the Buffalo County Fairgrounds listening to classroom presentations, doing hands-on activities, and taking written and tractor driving tests as parts of an agriculture safety course. Although they heard thousands of facts …
It took only seconds. Tim Hansen climbed inside the grain bin with a long pole, planning to shove it down into the corn to clear a crust of kernels stopping corn from funneling out to be loaded into trucks. His …
The odds of living were against Roger Bates when he fell into a grain bin on Jan. 31. The 78-year-old Rockton resident sank neck-deep into 35,000 bushels of corn while trying to break up spoiled clumps of material that would …
The number of laborers and others killed in accidents on Illinois farms is falling. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that the number of fatalities in the 12 months ending June 30 was the lowest in 35 years. According to the insurance …
The director of a new safety initiative at the University of Nebraska Medical Center expects its attention to such agricultural hazards as dust, noise and sleep deprivation to strike a blow against the deaths and injuries that make farming the …
The Nebraska Corn Board is urging farmers to take precautions when unloading grain bins. KHAS-TV in Hastings reports that the warning came after a Nebraska man died Wednesday in a grain bin accident. Authorities say 33-year-old Jeffrey Schardt of Ruskin …