How To Stay Alive When Working Around Grain
By Tom J Bechman, Delta Farm Press
A father and son entered a grain bin the day after a fire in the bin burned itself out. Both went in, but neither made it out alive. They succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. Officials reported that even the day after the fatalities, carbon monoxide levels read 500 parts per million inside the bin. A carbon monoxide detector in your home begins alerting you at 35 ppm.