home, a 1,250-foot-long airstrip ... Covered in what’s probably an excessive amount of reinforced concrete, the silo offers protection from overpressures of up to 100 psi.

A 66-year-old Westfield man was found dead after he fell into a sand silo at Chicopee Concrete Service on Friday morning.

A Ready-Mix Concrete plant in the Midwestern United States has resolved material build-up issues in three storage silos where accumulation had slowed production and increased internal pressures ...