by Injury Claim
10 August 2010
Two teenagers have succumbed to their work injuries after becoming trapped in a grain bin in Illinois. A third man, aged 20, is in a serious condition in hospital after also being pulled from the silo in Mt Carroll.
Rescue teams spent twelve hours drilling holes in the side of the structure to release thousands of pounds of grain, but their efforts were largely in vain. By the time they freed 19-year-old Alejandro Pacas and 14-year-old Wyatt R. Whitebread, they were dead. It is unclear how they came to be in the bin in the first place.