![]() The screening was by the Dane County Farm Bureau and additionally sponsored by Grinnell Mutual, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Agricultural Safety & Health, Rural Mutual Insurance and United Cooperative. The film viewing comes on the heels of National Farm Safety and Health Week, which raises awareness for various safety causes in agriculture – one of the most dangerous industries in the country. "We got to talk to each other and hold each other accountable." "I come from the commercial side of things, but it's disciplinary action, and there's not usually a second chance," Pecora said. Pecora added that accountability is important for working in these conditions. Skjolaas emphasized the need for "age-appropriate" tasks for young people, saying that even though many older folks grew up doing farm labor as children and teens, changes are necessary to ensure accidents like these never happen again. all these coffer dams that everybody talks about that are getting in the hands of all these departments absolutely have no value unless they have good training." "We have to reassure everybody on the farm how dangerous these things are, and how fast this grain moves, and why," Baker said. "But. ![]() Baker added that it's easy to forget how dangerous the job really is and that we need proper training to address accidents. He said older farming generations should be taught to understand why new safety regulations are important and younger generations should understand that they are less immune to accidents than they may think. Pecora also said that the generational divide can be fixed with proper communication. We were used to going in those 5,000-bushel bins – not (scared) that something could happen to somebody." "But as our bins have increased in size, we've done more on-farm storage. I fear an upright silo more than I fear the grain bins," Skjolaas said. "When I was a kid growing up on a farm, as we started having on-the-farm storage, they were smaller grain bins than we were talking about. Adler.Ī Q&A panel followed the screening, which featured Mark Baker, owner of first ag rescue training company Stateline Farm Rescue Cheryl Skjolaas, an ag safety and health specialist from UW-Madison Brad Pecora, a safety manager at United Cooperative and Pat O’Brien, a Dane County farmer and entrapment survivor. Also starring are Jim Parrack as Junior, Jill Paice as Val, Jeremy Holm as Frank, Danny Ramirez as Lucha and Chris Ellis as Mr. ![]() ![]() 'SILO' stars Jack Difalco as Cody Rose, a teen who works on a farm, who gets entrapped in a grain bin for several hours awaiting rescue from the people of his small town, who also have to overcome adversity from each other. Both films are directed by filmmaker Marshall Josh Burnette. 'SILO' is actually a dramatic reenactment of the events referenced in 'Silo: Edge of the Real World,' a short documentary about how the deaths of two teens and the hospitalization of a third after a 2010 grain bin accident affected a small town in northern Illinois. The film is based on real events and is the first feature film about a grain entrapment. ![]() #Silo movie movie#The 2019 feature film 'SILO,' a movie about a teen boy who gets trapped in a grain bin, echoes the warnings of many ag health and safety professionals not to risk your life in a grain bin. ![]()
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