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November 3, 2011

Grain elevators safer, but risks remain

  • Federal regulations have become tougher since 1977. In a six-day period that year, grain elevators exploded in four states, killing 50 people and injuring another 50.
    • By MICHAEL J. CRUMB
    Associated Press

    WICHITA, Kan. — No one needs to tell Steven Stallbaumer about the dangers of working in grain elevators.

    He was unloading fertilizer outside a Kansas elevator in 1998 when it exploded, killing seven workers. The blast knocked Stallbaumer underneath a railroad car, and he figures that saved his life. A big motor fell from the top of the elevator and landed beside the dump truck where he had been working.


     
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