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Life is rarely easy. That’s why at SCAFCO Grain Systems Company, being Built For Life includes offering you out-of-the-box flexibility and creative engineering.
When a customer approached SCAFCO with some unusual requirements for stone and aggregate storage, our engineering department took up the challenge. The result? This 30’ (9.14m)-diameter hopper bottom bin with ten rings and an eave height of nearly 52’ (16m). That’s fairly standard. Less standard are the shell around the hopper, the giant access door, the lack of any roof, and the heavy reinforcement required to handle 70 pounds per cubic foot (16kg/m3) of crushed rock and mineral fragments. Several ladders and platforms were also included in the build.
Grain entrapment is four times more deadly than a shark attack.
It has been a year since the release of SCAFCO Grain Systems’ Entrapment Prevention Anchor Kit (EPAK), and sales are strong. Our customers know better than to take chances: According to Purdue University, grain entrapment represented the leading cause of all agricultural confined-space related incidents in 2016, and more than 60% of those entrapments were fatal.
Adding an EPAK to your SCAFCO order is a quick, easy, and economical step that puts safety first. Find out more: Grain Bin Safety.