Nationwide opened the Nominate Your Fire Department Contest in recognition of Grain Bin Safety Week to provide training and resources for fire departments.
Nationwide awarded 41 fire departments with life-saving grain rescue tubes and hands-on training to prepare them to respond when grain accidents occur.
To help reduce and prevent accidents, Nationwide has launched its 6th annual Nominate Your Fire Department Contest in recognition of Grain Bin Safety Week.
GSI offers Z-Series bins with Flexwave technology in a 24-foot diameter model that will be available to U.S. and Canadian farmers this fall.
First responders credit training from Penn State Extension in the successful rescue of a Pennsylvania farmer from a grain bin last month. Michael Pate, Nationwide Insurance Associate Professor of Agricultural Safety and Health in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences says the incident, which happened in May on a farm in Northumberland County, illustrates the importance […]
Using appropriate safety practices when working around the grain bin is not only necessary, it’s vital, says a NDSU agricultural engineer.
We’re happy to hear this good news from Wyanet, Illinois last week after a farmer was successfully rescued from a grain bin. According to Bureau County Republican, the man had been stuck in soybeans for about three hours Wednesday evening before first responders were called to the scene. After Wyanet Fire and Rescue assessed the […]
Our thoughts go out to this Virginia man’s family after this heartbreaking news this week. On Tuesday, the Amelia Sheriff’s Office received a report of a man trapped in a grain bin on a farm in the 13000 block of Genito Road. Dustin Lee Arthur, 30, was trying to fix the soybean flow in the […]
An Illinois farmer who was up to his chin in beans in a grain bin Friday is recovering after a coordinated effort by first responders.
It was almost two years prior that Fire Chief Matt Webb had received a grain rescue tube from Nationwide when he received the 911 call about a local farmer.