Bin entry kits typically consist of the items seen above – one rope bag, 100 feet of 12.5 mm rescue rope, 70 N carabiners, two 8 mm prusik-rope sets, one rope pad, one anchor sling, one prusik minding pulley, and 20 feet of webbing.Ī simple safety rope attached to the person inside the bin may not be enough to restrain the person from being entrapped in grain.
Never enter the bin unless you believe there is no other way to solve the storage or unloading problem.There are several basic rules recommended for persons entering the bin to prevent grain entrapment: The basic tools required to prevent entrapment for personnel entering the bin are relatively simple. The focus of X624 has been to prevent grain entrapments. This proposed standard has undergone many revisions and is in the process of a final ballot to obtain consensus. SCAFCO’s Daniel Wambeke, P.E., has led this group for the past five years, and this committee has authored the proposed standard, X624 Grain Bin Access Design Safety. Naturally, this effort focused on the bin manufacturers to design bins with tools to assist those who enter the bins to deal with grain that has gone out of condition. Often, a contributing factor in these accidents is failure to shut off the unloading auger or conveyor.įor the past nine years, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has partnered with GEAPS in an effort to provide a consensus standard for Grain Bin Entry in order to prevent grain entrapments. People enter the bin to attempt to dislodge the blockage, and many times the grain collapses under them or starts to flow rapidly to the discharge opening, drawing the person inside the bin into the grain mass, where they become entrapped or completely engulfed by stored grain. People enter bins for a variety of reasons, but the predominant reason for most entrapments has been “out of condition” grain that won’t flow to the center discharge point. They also pursued training for fire department rescuers of personnel trapped inside grain storage structures. The Grain Elevator & Processing Society (GEAPS) had campaigned for awareness of these rising numbers of fatalities before 2010, but after that devastating season, they became more aggressive in their efforts toĮducate the grain storage industry about the hazards of grain entrapment. The worst year in recent history was the 2010 grain storage season, in which there were over fifty grain entrapments and twenty eight fatalities.
William Field, has tracked these mostly preventable accidents for more than thirty years. In the past ten years, the number of grain entrapments on farms and in commercial grain storage facilities has increased. At SCAFCO Grain Systems Company, we are always focused on safety, which is why we are now offering grain entrapment prevention kits for all flat bottom bins and large hopper bottom bins we sell.
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