Grain safety program to provide training, increase awareness to reduce deaths
Mar 14, 2017 | 10:15 AM
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WINNIPEG — The federal government is offering up to $375,000 for a new program to reduce deaths and injuries related to grain-handling.
The money is to go toward training for producers and first responders, awareness programs for children and a mobile demonstration unit.
In 2015, three sisters from Alberta died after they became trapped and suffocated in a dense pile of tiny canola seeds in the family grain truck.
Experts warn such grains can act like quicksand.
