[Jan_Sobieski]

Very sad.

[Sir_Humphrey]

Holy Crap!

[redgolum]

Confined space rules are written in blood.

This is sad.

[Red Badger]

Horrible way to go......................

[NautiNurse]

Tragic deaths, and awful assignment for the team tasked with recovering the bodies.

[billorites]

SBD

[ConservativeMind]

The smells and gasses given off are incredible. I have first-hand experience.

This is a sad situation. We think we can just bear the smell, but there are killing vapors, too.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What a shame. Rest in peace.

[Pollard]

Poor farm design

[gov_bean_ counter]

Well that stinks.

It doesn’t take long.

[Qiviut]

Tragic.

One of the worst incidents & the one that jumped immediately to mind after seeing this story was this 2007 incident .... family members kept trying to save others & died.

Gas From Manure Pit Kills 5 On Dairy Farm [2007]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gas-from-manure-pit-kills-5-on-dairy-farm/

Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm’s manure pit killed five people, including four members of a Mennonite family, authorities said.

Emergency workers speculate that after the first victim was overcome Monday, the others climbed into the pit in a frantic rescue attempt. “It was a domino effect with one person going in, the second person going after them,” Rockingham County Sheriff Don Farley said.

“When these fumes hit you, it takes a matter of seconds, and it’s my guesstimate that these people were dead before they actually hit the floor,” Farley told CBS News.

Farley identified the victims as Scott Showalter, 34; his wife, Phyillis, 33; their daughters, Shayla, 11, and Christina, 9; and Amous Stoltzfus, 24, who worked at the Showalters’ dairy farm in the Briery Branch community.

The accident began when Scott Showalter tried to transfer manure from one small pit to a larger one, measuring 20 feet by 20 feet and 8 feet deep.

The pipe that was transferring the manure became clogged, and Showalter climbed in the pit to fix the blockage, Farley said.

[Da Coyote]

Same thing happens if one stays in a media news room for longer than a few minutes.

[Dan in Wichita]

Feeling very bad for the family of these three men.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Compared to breathing in ammonia.

[traderrob6]

When I graduated college years ago I worked for a breeding stock company and I used to have to go under the hog slats into the 5 foot deep pits and unplug the standing drain pipes regularly.....Amazed I’m still alive.

[ExTxMarine]

Almost guarantee it was H2S. It doesn’t take much to deaden the smell factor and then you simply pass out and continue to breathe it until you die.

Sad!

[Sans-Culotte]

Aren’t there some sort of gas masks that should be worn around manure pits?

[M Kehoe]

SO2 can kill you.

Ack! What a way to check out.

5.56mm

[grimalkin]

Terrible. Confined space safety is no joke.

[ConservativeInPA]

That really stinks.

[Old Yeller]

Can’t think of a shittier way to go. Good place to put congresscreeps.