Three Ohio brothers, all in their 30s, have died after getting stuck in a manure pit on their farm, according to authorities. (Credit: Hogenkamp Funeral Homes)
3 Ohio brothers die after getting trapped in manure pit: officials
By
Joshua Rhett Miller
August 12, 2021 9:43am
Updated
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Brad Wuebker, 35, Todd Wuebker, 31, and Gary Wuebker, 37, died Tuesday at hospitals after rescue crews responded to their family farm in St. Henry and found them under water in the pit and requested a dive team, WHIO reported.
“My son passed out,” a woman told dispatchers. “He was doing something with the pit.”
Moments later, a second caller requested more help, saying, “I’ve got all three boys down in the pit.”
The Wuebkers were extracted from the manure pit about 20 minutes after the initial 911 call was received at 12:30 p.m. Details of how the men fell into the pit or how long they were stuck were not immediately clear, WDTN reported.
Gary and Todd Wuebker were pronounced dead at a hospital in Coldwater, Ohio, while Brad Wuebker died at a hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The three brothers were “full-time” farmers who owned and operated GBT Wuebker Farms LLC with their father, according to their obituaries.
The Ohio Holstein Association said in a Wednesday Facebook post that the group's "condolences go out to the Wuebker family on the loss of their three sons, Brad, Todd, and Gary Wuebker of Mercer County."
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Manure pits are common on large livestock farms and are used to store waste before it is used as fertilizer on fields. But the pits can produce dangerous gases including hydrogen sulfide, methane, carbon monoxide and ammonia.
Some of those gases can lead to headaches, dizziness, breathing trouble and deaths, according to the Ohio State University Extension.
Ohio brothers die after getting trapped in manure pit: officials
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