Employee survives 40-foot fall into corn silo at Denver Frito-Lay plant

8 mooreds 3 9/8/2025, 9:59:51 PM denverpost.com ↗

Comments (3)

sgentle · 12h ago
In case this doesn't seem like a particularly scary situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_entrapment#Occurrence

> Half of all entrapment victims eventually become engulfed. A human body in grain takes seconds to sink, minutes to suffocate, and hours to locate and recover.

TowerTall · 7h ago
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. I wonder if it is the same for grain.

https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Out-of-Quicksand

onecommentman · 12h ago
There were 29 agricultural confined space fatalities in the US in 2023. Roughly half of the identified cases were caused by grain entrapments.

https://extension.purdue.edu/news/2024/09/grain-entrapment-i...