Grain bin auger accidents surge in winter months, with a 32% fatality rate. Unguarded floor openings cause most incidents.

Travis Muller, 30, was cleaning out a grain bin when his legs got caught up in the power sweep auger. At approximately 3:06 p.m., Cottonwood County Dispatch received a 911 call about the incident.

A man's legs were amputated at a Twin Cities hospital after they were mangled in a grain bin auger in southwestern Minnesota, officials and family said Monday. The incident occurred midafternoon ...

FARGO, N.D. -- If you are working with grain, you need to know how to keep from getting trapped in it. A lot of wetter-than-normal corn went into storage this year, and wet corn is more prone to ...

Above: Purdue student in grain bin rescue simulator. I recently re-watched the 2016 video entitled, “Stop, Think, & Live!” a work about grain entrapment, produced by Posey County Farm Bureau, Inc., ...

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — A teenager was injured after becoming stuck in a grain bin auger Thursday afternoon in St. Charles County. St. Charles County Ambulance District spokesperson Kyle Gaines said ...

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 ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- With harvest season upon us, residents in Northwest Missouri might frequently see big, silver units while driving down the highway. Grain bins are used to store ...

Bay County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to Ittner Bean and Grain in Auburn on Tuesday after a 44-year-old employee fell into an auger and suffered a severe leg injury. The man was airlifted ...

Sep. 25—WINDOM, Minn. — A Windom man was severely injured Sunday, Sept. 24, after his legs got caught in a power sweep auger of a grain bin. Travis Muller, 30, was cleaning out a grain bin when his ...

Sep. 25—WINDOM — A Windom man was severely injured Sunday, after his legs got caught in a power sweep auger of a grain bin. Travis Muller, 30, was cleaning out a grain bin when his legs got caught up ...