Boy 'buried up to his head in corn' rescued from grain bin in Pennsylvania

A boy was rescued from a grain bin in Adams County, Pennsylvania after he was 'buried up to his head in corn,' according to a social media post by Dover Township Fire Department. 

The fire department assisted York Springs Fire Company No. 1 to rescue a boy stuck in a grain bean in Latimore Township near York Spring, Pennsylvania, Monday afternoon. 

First responders received an alert shortly after 4.30pm, regarding a person being trapped on the 100 block of Hoffman Road in Latimore Township. 

As the fire brigade ran to the scene, they found the boy conscious and breathing 'in a grain bin cart, and buried up to his head in corn,' the authorities said. 

The fire department said they worked to free the boy 'in just over 30 minutes' in its Facebook post. 

A boy was found conscious and breathing in a grain bin cart, and buried up to his head in corn

He was rescued and transported to a local hospital Monday

First responders received an alert shortly after 4.30pm, regarding a person being trapped on the 100 block of Hoffman Road in Latimore Township

The child was transported by emergency crews to a local hospital for evaluation, the authorities shared. 

It's unclear how old the child is and how he became trapped in the grain bin. There has been no life-threatening injury, but the boy's exact condition remains unknow. 

Shocked by the incident, social media users said the boy was lucky to be safely rescued. 

One wrote: 'safety harnesses are absolutely necessary in a silo or grain bin. Yeah...they're a pain, but they can save your life.' 

'Country kids play outside by themselves all the time if it was a case of being alone. If it was a case of helping, if they just fell into the corn they would sink down in quickly,' another wrote. 

The result could be deadly in Travis Muller's case last month. The 30-year-old man was working in a grain bin when both of his legs got stuck in an auger in rural Minnesota. 

He lost both his legs during the tragedy and suffered from infection due to 'a significant amount of dirt and corn in his leg,' his wife wrote on a GoFundMe page. 

A 2022 study shows there were 83 agricultural confined spaces cases in 2022, a sharp rise compared to 59 cases in 2021.  

Among all the cases in 2022, 24 were fatal, and 42 were grain related entrapments in 2022, the study shows. 

Other cases involved livestock waste handling facilities, entanglements inside confined spaces, falls from confined space structures, and grain dust explosions.