‘Grain is dangerous:’ family of boy, grandfather killed on farm wants awareness
When Dennis Becker saw his grandson sinking in a semi-trailer loaded with grain, he did all he could to save him.
But as he clawed through the pile of tiny kernels trying to free 14-year-old Layne Langridge, the 63-year-old man became trapped as well.
Within minutes, both had suffocated on Becker’s farm near Burstall in southwestern Saskatchewan.
Family members later realized, after the bodies were freed from the truck, how frantically Becker had been trying to pull the boy out — the nails on his purple fingers were peeled back.