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This would be terrible

A clear plastic bag + a rope would have saved everyone.

Rescuer #1 brings an air supply by putting a large plastic bag over his head torso and tying a rope around him so he can be pulled out.
 
"Farley said the Showalter farm was a modern dairy operation. "Their faith did not deter any safety precautions," he said."


except maybe a methane meter, training not to go into enclosed gaseous areas without a breathing apparatus and maybe a vent fan on the tanks... and ya, thats a way sucky way to go. all of them. why did the girls go in there? so young!
 
I love hearing people on Dirty Jobs talking about the stuff they are exposed to. "Aw don't worry, it's all natural! Ain't gonna hurt ya!"

Mercury is all natural. So's methane. Snake venom, too.
Nature's got a book of 1,000,001 ways to kill a human.
 
Wow, that's pretty tragic. I feel bad for the families. About 25 years ago, there was a similar case near me when someone on a chicken farm tripped and fell into a vat of chicken excrement. Died of asphyxiation.
 
This same thing has happened to people who enter railcars to clean them. If you can't see the gas or smell the gas, there just isn't any warning.
 
Originally posted by: Midlander
This same thing has happened to people who enter railcars to clean them. If you can't see the gas or smell the gas, there just isn't any warning.
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Railcars? I've never heard of that. I have heard of people dying when cleaning grain silos; gas from the fermenting grains.
 
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