FARMINGTON, MINNESOTA, FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED THURSDAY MORNING to a grain elevator for a man trapped in a corn silo. The elevator worker had fallen into the silo and was buried to his armpits with only one arm free. He was about 40 feet below the top of the silo.
ThisWeekLive.com
The regional high-angle team, the Dakota County Special Operations Team, responded and set up an operation from above. After first cutting a larger hole in the silo cover, they lowered firefighters down with plywood sections who then built a protective barricade around the trapped man.
Railroad traffic was halted during the operation so that there wouldn’t be any vibration that could cause further shifting of the corn. Later into the operation, they cut another hole in the side of the silo to allow product to spill out and lower the level after the man had been secured. After nearly eight hours of work, mostly by hand, he was brought topside and successfully brought to freedom.
KARE-TV has a good video report from the rescue scene:
The Pioneer Press has more DETAILS HERE.
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