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Matter of Seconds: As Deaths Add Up, Farmers ‘Walk The Grain’ Unprotected

By Robert Holly/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 3, 2013

There have been more than 900 grain-bin entrapments throughout the country since 1964, according to data compiled by Purdue University’s Agricultural Safety and Health Program. More than half of those incidents were fatal.