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Grain handling safety training at Husker Harvest Days
A farm safety specialist says despite efforts to increase awareness, grain handling accidents remain a big issue in agriculture.
“It’s a huge concern,” says Ellen Duysen with the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. “We’re losing good folks, it seems, almost every other week.”
Duysen’s organization, in partnership with the Grain Handling Safety Coalition (GHSC) and Sukup Manufacturing Company, will conduct training sessions on grain handling safety this week at Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island.
“We’ll be talking about lockout-tagout, different types of lifelines that can be used in the bins, and respiratory concerns that farmers and ranchers may have as they work around their grains,” she says.
A free screening of a newly released film called SILO, which deals with grain entrapment, will take place at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday in the Sukup exhibit at Husker Harvest Days.
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