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PA farm family has close call with manure gas

September 28, 2012, Danville, PA – A dairy farmer in Pennsylvania had a harrowing day recently after his four and two year old sons were knocked unconscious by manure gas.

Just as the farmer was starting to stir his open-air, 124-foot-wide by 12-foot-deep, 1.2-million-gallon concrete manure pit, the two boys, who were playing nearby, were found unconscious and unresponsive. READ MORE