A new training tool developed by Penn State engineering students is aimed at savings lives on the farm.
The device is designed to demonstrate what happens when someone falls into a grain bin with the goal of improving their chances for rescue.
“People don’t realize how quickly they can be trapped in flowing grain, and once they get in over their knee or waist, they can’t get out,” Dave Hill with Penn State’s Ag Extension Services said.
Hill also says that while grain bin accidents are currently rare in Pennsylvania, that could change.
“We really haven’t had a grain entrapment in several years but we do have more bins going up, so the opportunity is there,” he said.
Hill hopes the simulator will become part of the overall training plan for emergency personnel who respond to farming accidents.
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