Let’s say you get injured while out checking a silo. Avoid the High Cost of Ignoring Grain Bin Safety Just breaking a bone can put you out of commission for your other farming duties. Wet or icy rungs on a bin ladder can also cause you to slip and fall. But remember, an outside fall from that height is typically fatal. Sometimes you may have to go to the top of the bin or silo. Falls are also among the top five farm hazards. In poor weather conditions, you can slip and get injured. The same goes for a stormy day in July, when rain is pouring down and there’s lightning all around. If it’s a cold December day with snow on the ground, you’ve still got to walk out to the silo. If you monitor grain in person, you have to go out to the bin site regardless of weather conditions. It’s one of the top five farm hazards, and it’s no joke. Even without entrapment, asphyxiation inside a grain bin can occur from poor ventilation. He had tried to check on a bin from the inside when a void collapsed.
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The NASD gives a cautionary example of a transport driver who was buried in an avalanche of grain earlier this year. If you fall through that crust of spoiled grain, you can end up trapped as the void quickly gets filled. What you don’t see, however, is the air pocket right beneath it. Let’s say you walk in and notice some spoiled grain in one part of the silo. More than 100 farmers are killed each year while walking across the grain surface, according to the NASD.
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While that might seem like something from a TV drama, it actually happens more often than you think. If you don’t get out within 20 seconds, you can be completely covered. It actually only takes four seconds to get trapped in flowing grain, according to the National Agriculture Safety Database.
I talk about grain entrapment in a previous post titled, Buried Alive: 20 Seconds to Total Grain Entrapment. The safest time to climb into your grain bin is never. There are also the issue of grain bin safety and related costs. You could’ve headed off the problem before it started.īut there are a few other factors to consider besides preserving grain quality – your primary asset.
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Grain bins are too big for that to work anymore, plus was it ever that effective? Temperature cables would’ve given you accurate information before spoilage was bad enough to cause odor. If you can smell the deterioration, it’s already too late. But how do you do that? By smelling the grain. You believe it’s the only way to spot signs of mold or mildew.
You argue that you need to check your grain in person. Now yes, I know some of you still think this is debatable. That’s done by controlling the temperature. While you can’t improve the quality of grain after the harvest, you can protect it from deteriorating. After all, the higher the quality of your grain, the better the price. At the same time, you can’t just walk away and ignore it. Driving or walking from silo to silo just adds more work to an already loaded schedule. I understand how hard it can be to find the time to check your grain each week. Monitoring all that grain increases concerns about grain bin safety. A larger inventory means more storage space. That data highlights an already growing issue for farmers. Department of Agriculture expects the country’s soybean inventory to hit 910 million bushels, nearly double the amount available in 2018.
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