Horrible News. 3 brothers die.

[Bearsixty7]

Very sad and tragic loss.

 

[Pixguy]

If you mean the actual purpose and process of a manure pit, here is a good description,

Preventing Deaths of Farm Workers in Manure Pits (90-103) | NIOSH | CDC

This Alert describes seven deaths from asphyxiation (suffocation) that occurred during two incidents involving entry into manure pits

www.cdc.gov

Sadly these guys will make that list.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sad, had a couple near me die a few yrs back from a manure pit.

 

[dodge man]

I am a retired land surveyor and when doing topographic surveying we often opened manholes to inspect them and get depths. It was very clear we were to never go in them. I even took a class on confined space awareness. They didn’t say how it happened but it’s common one person goes down and the another person goes in to get them out and so on. A very tragic accident.

 

[MossRoad]

That reminded me of this tragedy back in 2007...

Gas From Manure Pit Kills 5 On Dairy Farm

Farmer, Wife, 2 Daughters And Farmhand In Virginia Were Overcome By Methane

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Bearsixty7]

The company I work at on various campus's requires an annual safety training class. Even though I don't work in any confined spaces, they have lots of material on the subject in part of the training. I have to learn and pass a test on it all.

They discuss using gas detection monitors and they have to be on a selfie type stick that can be easily lowered to floor height and not just check air at elbow or waist level. Having a tether/harness on the person that enters and they have a recovery system (pulley/tripod system usually) so they can extract him without any one else entering if needed, there must also be a person attending the recovery system and in full contact with the person in the confined space at all times.

A lot of this is in place since 2 guys were killed many years ago just in a trench about 6 feet deep, the first guy bent over to do something and the gas (I don't recall what it was) knocked him out, a few minutes later another worker saw him and went down to help and he was overcome by the same gas.

Seems there should be some sort of training or at least a publication available for all the farmers and works that may have to deal with these manure pits. Can they be built without any state/city/county inspection? The inspection could cover this training.
The manufacturer of the pit/pumps/etc should have warning decals on the equipment, maybe it already does, I don't know.

With them being in their thirties, I would think they would have known about the potential hazard, but maybe not.

 

[Sigarms]

I even took a class on confined space awareness. They didn’t say how it happened but it’s common one person goes down and the another person goes in to get them out and so on. A very tragic accident.

The question becomes how as a society to inform people of these hazzards so more people don't die?

Honestly, I knew nothing about manure pits before this thread, but if people keep dying in them (manure pits), why are not more people aware of the potential hazzards and what needs to be done servicing them?

 

[Wakey]

This is similar to when someone gets caught in a riptide and people swim out from the beach to save them only to suffer the same fate.

Backstroking perpendicular to the beach until you exit the outbound current is how you get out of the pickle. Now you can easily swim to the beach.

 

[jerrybob]

Tragic accident....same thing can happen with a septic tank.....fumes have killed people.

 

[Cycledude]

Very sad situation that happens way to often mainly because of not taking safety issues serious enough.