In the Midwest, injured agriculture workers are telling their stories to help others avoid the same fate.

It's been eight years since Jason Fevold almost died while working on a farm. Fevold had been spending long hours in October 2010 pumping liquid manure out of the pit in a swine building and spreading it onto a nearby field. It was dangerous work that included the risk of exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas, but Fevold was confident and committed: He'd been working on farms since doing chores for his grandparents as a kid. During one of the trips back to the hog confinement building, Jason went inside to use the restroom, but didn't come back out. When Roxanne saw manure splashing out of a tank, she knew something was wrong.She ran inside and found Jason passed out, foam coming from his mouth. She flagged down his co-worker, and the two of them pulled her 200-pound husband away from the pit opening.If Roxanne had not been close by, Jason might not have been found until later. That would have been enough time for the gas he'd inhaled to kill him, rather than send him to the cardiac intensive care unit at a hospital in Des Moines.The experience, although frightening, was not enough to get Fevold to consider leaving farming.After receiving funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the project began focusing on collecting stories like Fevold's, told using the voice of the farmer and packaged for use in media articles as well as curricula for colleges, 4-H programs or the National FFA Organization, formerly the Future Farmers of America. The Fevolds' story is one of eight now featured on the project website.