PHOTOS: A Tennessee man was rescued from a grain bin after he became 90% engulfed in corn kernels and crews raced to free him, firefighters said.
In a Facebook post, the Ethridge Fire Department said that around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, crews were sent to a farm on Henryville Road to rescue a 70-year-old man who owns the farm.
Authorities said that they found that the man was entrapped in the corn near the middle of the large grain bin. After locating the man at the center of the grain bin, crews deployed metal tubes to help stabilize and secure him.
Crews then used a vacuum truck to remove the corn from the bin so that the man could be removed by emergency personnel through the access door of the bin, authorities said. The Fire Department said that the patient was checked by Lawrence County EMS and eventually released without injury.