Posted on 08/12/2021 7:23:33 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Edited on 08/12/2021 8:16:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ST. HENRY, Ohio (AP) — Three brothers who were trapped in a manure pit on their livestock farm after being overcome by fumes have died, authorities said.
Rescue crews found the men unconscious and unable to move in the pit Tuesday afternoon. They were fixing a manure pump before they passed out from the fumes, said St. Henry Fire Chief Matt Lefeld.
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Holy Crap!
Confined space rules are written in blood.
This is sad.
Horrible way to go......................
Tragic deaths, and awful assignment for the team tasked with recovering the bodies.
SBD
The smells and gasses given off are incredible. I have first-hand experience.
This is a sad situation. We think we can just bear the smell, but there are killing vapors, too.
What a shame. Rest in peace.
Poor farm design
It doesn’t take long.
Tragic.
One of the worst incidents & the one that jumped immediately to mind after seeing this story was this 2007 incident .... family members kept trying to save others & died.
Gas From Manure Pit Kills 5 On Dairy Farm [2007]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gas-from-manure-pit-kills-5-on-dairy-farm/
Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm’s manure pit killed five people, including four members of a Mennonite family, authorities said.
Emergency workers speculate that after the first victim was overcome Monday, the others climbed into the pit in a frantic rescue attempt. “It was a domino effect with one person going in, the second person going after them,” Rockingham County Sheriff Don Farley said.
“When these fumes hit you, it takes a matter of seconds, and it’s my guesstimate that these people were dead before they actually hit the floor,” Farley told CBS News.
Farley identified the victims as Scott Showalter, 34; his wife, Phyillis, 33; their daughters, Shayla, 11, and Christina, 9; and Amous Stoltzfus, 24, who worked at the Showalters’ dairy farm in the Briery Branch community.
The accident began when Scott Showalter tried to transfer manure from one small pit to a larger one, measuring 20 feet by 20 feet and 8 feet deep.
The pipe that was transferring the manure became clogged, and Showalter climbed in the pit to fix the blockage, Farley said.
Why doesn’t this ever happen in Congress?
Too much hot air, ‘blowing’!
Corn silos are dangerous too.
Have seen stories of farmers dying in those from the fumes.
>> The smells and gasses given off are incredible.
Actually, when the H2S concentrations get high enough to be deadly, they overload your sense of smell and you can’t smell it anymore. Then you just walk in and drop dead.
I think that manure = Ammonia
Same thing happens if one stays in a media news room for longer than a few minutes.
Feeling very bad for the family of these three men.
Compared to breathing in ammonia.
When I was a kid—we spread the manure daily onto our fields.
Neighbor had a team of draft horses they used in the winter to pull the manure spreader. Horses only had to work about 5 moths of the year, but they went where tractor couldn’t.
When I graduated college years ago I worked for a breeding stock company and I used to have to go under the hog slats into the 5 foot deep pits and unplug the standing drain pipes regularly.....Amazed I’m still alive.
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