Boy ‘buried up to his head in corn’ rescued from grain bin in Pennsylvania

A boy was rescued from a grain bin in Adams County, Pennsylvania, after being “buried up to his head in corn,” according to a social media post by Dover Township Fire Department.

On Monday afternoon, the fire department called York Springs Fire Company No.

First responders received an alert about a person trapped on the 100 block of Hoffman Road in Latimore Township shortly after 4:30 p.m.

When firefighters rushed to the scene, they found the boy conscious and breathing “in a grain bin car, buried up to his head in wheat,” authorities said.

Firefighters said they worked to free the boy ‘in just over 30 minutes’ Facebook post.

A boy was found conscious and breathing in a grain bin car, buried up to his head in wheat

He was rescued on Monday and transported to a local hospital

First responders received an alert about a person trapped on the 100 block of Hoffman Road in Latimore Township shortly after 4:30 p.m.

The child was transported by emergency personnel to a local hospital for evaluation, authorities shared.

It is unclear how old the child is and how he became trapped in the grain bin. There were no life-threatening injuries, but the boy’s exact condition is still unknown.

Shocked by the incident, social media users said the boy was lucky to be rescued safely.

One wrote: ‘Safety harnesses are absolutely essential in a silo or grain bin. Yes… they’re a pain, but they can save your life.’

‘Country children play outside alone all the time if it was a case of being alone. If it was a case of help, if they just fell into the corn, they would sink in quickly,’ wrote another.

The result could be fatal in Travis Muller’s case last month. The 30-year-old man was working in a grain bin when both of his legs got stuck in an auger in rural Minnesota.

He lost both his legs in the tragedy and suffered from infection due to “a significant amount of dirt and corn in his leg,” his wife wrote on a GoFundMe page.

A 2022 study shows that there were 83 cases of restricted agriculture in 2022, a sharp increase compared to 59 cases in 2021.

Of all the cases in 2022, 24 were fatal, and 42 were grain-related seizures in 2022, the study shows.

Other cases involved livestock waste handling facilities, confined space entanglements, collapses of confined space structures and grain dust explosions.