Trapped in Grain: While other farm incidents are down, grain fatalities are on the rise

摘要

Get up there and don't take long," were the last words Jim Roman's 13-year-old grandson, Jordan, said to him. The Dresden, Ohio, farmer was headed to a neighboring town to get his pickup truck. Before he left, he told Jordan and an employee to wait tounload a gravity wagon of corn until he returned. Roman hadn't been gone long when he received a call that there was an emergency. Jordan was in the 500-bushel, gravity-fed wagon with a center draw emptying the grain at the mill Roman co-owns, Dresden Feed and Supply Inc. In a matter of seconds, Jordan had suffocated.