Thanks to a $2,000 grant, the Clay City Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Department purchased a grain bin rescue auger that will make it faster and easier to save people trapped in grain bins. Clay ...

Of people pulled under the grain, approximately 90 percent don’t survive, said Salah Issa, a University of Illinois assistant ...

First responders in Clay City have a new tool at their disposal they hope will make area farms a little more safe. Using a $2,000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation, the Clay City Harrison Township ...

EDGEWOOD — Grain bin fatalities are a leading accidental cause of premature death among farmers. According to Purdue University, about 39 grain-entrapment cases across the country occurred in 2024, a ...

If a farmer falls into a bin with flowing shelled corn, wheat, oats, sunflower seeds or barley, they might sink to their knees and be unable to free themselves in the time it took to read this ...