Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications
Campus Units
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2018
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
Volume
24
Issue
2
First Page
57
Last Page
58
Research Focus Area(s)
Occupational Safety Engineering
DOI
10.13031/jash.12822
Abstract
At a recent training event to evaluate various types of rescue devices and strategies to extricate victims from partial entrapment in free-flowing grain, a group of volunteer high school students were invited to participate as test subjects. For each test, two youth were equipped with full-body harnesses and lifelines, asked to stand on the grain surface in a semi-trailer load of dry corn, and then allowed to be drawn into the grain as the bottom discharge gate under each youth was opened. Both “victims” were drawn into the grain at either end of the trailer at the same time, each located over the deepest section of the trailer directly above a hopper. Photos were taken of the entrapped youth showing no more than their heads and shoulders above the grain surface.
Copyright Owner
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Copyright Date
2018
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Field, William E.; Cheng, Yuan-hsin; Tormoehlen, Roger; Aherin, Robert; Schwab, Charles V.; Neenan, Daniel; and Roberts, Matthew, "Let’s Stop Treating Our Youth Like Dummies" (2018). Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications. 1111.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/abe_eng_pubs/1111
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Agriculture Commons, Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering Commons, Ergonomics Commons
Comments
This article is published as Field, William E., Yuan-hsin Cheng, Roger Tormoehlen, Robert Aherin, Charles Schwab, Daniel Neenan, and Matthew Roberts. "Let’s Stop Treating Our Youth Like Dummies." Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health 24, no. 2 (2018): 57-58. DOI: 10.13031/jash.12822. Posted with permission.