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	Podcast:		Business Beat
	Episode:		Business Beat - New prototype looks to combat grain entrapment
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:00
	Publish Date:		2015-10-21 16:45:00
	Description:		John Sam Williamson has been a farmer for more than 50 years. He knows his five grain bins stocked with corn and soybeans very well, but he also knows the risks. “There’s a lot of danger to grain bins, but if you use them safely its like other things, gasoline is dangerous, sharp knives are dangerous but if you’re careful and do things safely you should be fine,” Williamson said. One such danger is known as grain entrapment where a worker inside a grain bin is crushed, sometimes to death, by the grain. According to the 2014 Summary of U.S. Agriculture Confined-Space Related Injuries and Fatalities compiled by researchers at Purdue University, there were 38 grain entrapments reported nationally in 2014 with 17 of those being fatal. Researchers said the real number of deaths could be higher since more than two-thirds of grain bins in the U.S. exist on farms that are exempt from OSHA injury reporting standards. “These accidents don’t turn typically turn out well,” said MU agriculture
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