March 4- “Grain Bin Entry”
Salah Issa, Assistant Professor of Industrial Safety and Health, University of Illinois
Grain entrapment is an agricultural injury in which a person enters a grain bin or silo to dislodge a blockage caused by out-of-condition grain and becomes partially or fully entrapped or engulfed in grain. Each year in the US, approximately 30 grain entrapments occur, with a roughly 50% of the people entrapped dying. In 2019 at least 38 individuals were entrapped with grain; 61% died. This was 27% larger than number of incidents reported in 2018 and the largest number of incidents since 2014 when 38 incidents were reported. In this presentation, Dr. Salah Issa will review grain conditions that lead to grain entrapments and discuss the proper grain bin entry procedures necessary to prevent grain entrapments.