It took only seconds. Tim Hansen climbed inside the grain bin with a long pole, planning to shove it down into the corn to clear a crust of kernels stopping corn from funneling out to be loaded into trucks. His …
An 81-year-old southwestern Indiana farmer is out of the hospital after being buried by corn to the top of his head inside a grain bin. Steve White says his father, Bill, and a farmhand were working at the grain bin …
For decades, the federal agency that oversees workplace safety has been prohibited from regulating small farming operations. But lawmakers in South Dakota and other farm states have grown concerned that could be changing and are seeking to head off any …