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Area man’s life saved in grain bin rescue

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By Correne Martin

A grain bin entrapment ended with a man’s life saved on June 28, thanks to the quick thinking of those on-site and the use of a grain bin rescue tube. 

According to Boscobel Fire Chief Todd Fischer, emergency officials were called about 5:20 p.m. to the Bailey residence on County M in Watertown Township. David Bailey, 66, had become stuck inside a grain bin and shed structure, where he was surrounded by shelling corn for over an hour before a truck driver pulled in and found him. The driver, Bailey’s son, a neighbor and another individual immediately started placing plywood sheets around Bailey to create a protective barrier for him. 

“At some point, they didn’t think they were going to get him out, so they called the fire department,” Fischer said. 

While on the road to the scene, he called for the Grant County Tech Rescue Team and Wauzeka Fire “because I knew they had a grain bin rescue tube and equipment,” he said. 

Both organizations responded in addition to a couple sheriff’s deputies and three Eastman firemen who had trained with Wauzeka on the rescue tube. Once Bailey was brought out, the Boscobel Rescue Squad took him to a remote location where he was airlifted to a regional hospital for medical attention.

“We were on site for three hours,” Fischer said. “We were lucky  [Bailey] was rescued, and not recovered.”

In talking to the Bailey family after the incident, Fischer said he learned David was released from the hospital at 3 a.m. the next morning: “He will have little to no long-term effects at all.”

The grain bin rescue tube was awarded to the Wauzeka Fire and Rescue in 2018 by Nationwide Insurance and the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety. Since, the department has collaborated with various other departments in Crawford and Grant counties to purchase accompanying safety and efficiency equipment.

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