Together, we can prevent grain bin accidents.

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Nominate your fire department: Jan – April, each year

In conjunction with Grain Bin Safety Week, Nationwide partners with agricultural safety and training organizations to award emergency first responders with grain rescue tubes and hands-on rescue training to help save lives.

Learn about nominating

Discover how lives have been saved

Grain bin safety videos

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A passion for grain bin safety

Listen to Michele Gran, a mother who lost her teenage son in a grain bin accident, share why she is passionate about grain bin safety and watch Nationwide senior leaders and others share why they support our grain bin safety week initiative.

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Grain bin safety rescue story

This video shows how Nationwide protects people, businesses, and futures with extraordinary care. Hear from a family member whose father was trapped in a grain bin up to his neck and how he was rescued by the Glenville Fire Department.

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Why is grain bin safety important

Learn more about why grain bin incidents and why safety around grain bins is critical to help prevent entrapments from occurring.

Grain bin safety tools

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Grain storage construction

Follow these design, construction, maintenance and inspection guidelines to help ensure structural integrity and safety.

Grain vacuum safety toolbox talk

Guide for formal group discussions used to help raise awareness about working in grain bins and to promote a culture of safety.

Lockout tagout guidelines

Use this guide to help develop and implement an effective lockout/tagout program and to control hazardous energy

Safe way to enter a bin

Entering a grain bin is extremely dangerous. This awareness document can help you gain a better understanding of what can go wrong when entering a grain bin and what it takes to help prevent a tragedy from happening.

Steel bin storage annual checklist

Use this checklist to help document and keep track of important bin information, such as owner's manuals, annual inspection reports and maintenance records.

Year-round grain management

A year-round grain management strategy can help minimize grain-related accidents and help improve your bottom line.