'Three beautiful, talented young ladies' memorialized in Alberta

They were playing in the truck while it was being loaded. Where were the adults here? How is it farmers still don't teach their kids that this is dangerous. These are like life jacket deaths - easily preventable if people would not be so nonchalant until it's too late.

The truck wasn't being loaded. Considering the 911 came in at 6:15pm the adults were more than likely having supper.

Truck was fully loaded. It probably looked like a giant sandbox to them. This is very sad.

This isn't a rare occurence. You'd think farmers would teach their kids that piles of grain are dangerous.

There are adults that drown in grain on farms and at grain handling facilities. It's not just kids.

So that's what I'm driving at - a culture that seems to take this danger too casually. Just as we have so many people drowning because they don't take the danger on the water seriously. And then all the grieving is about what wonderful people they were (no doubt they were) instead of also bringing up that they were being a dumbass. No different than city folk who cross the road while texting, I guess.

Or who ski out of bounds, climb on unsafe rock faces or go hiking off trails...all dumbasses.

Nope. Those risks can be minimized by proper preparation. And an knowledge that you are taking risks, not just heading out blindly. And not letting little kids do them. Proper preparation for water sports is wearing a life jacket, and knowing the water you are boating on. There doesn't seem to be such a thing as proper preparation for playing on grain piles.

If it happened on a farm and the farm is recognized as a "work" area then the onus should be upon WorkSafe or WCB or whatever they call themselves now....

The kids weren't working, so number one should be parents teaching their kids. But certainly WCB should be doing whatever it can to educate the adults. I've been hearing about how dangerous grain piles are since I was a kid, and I've spent very little time on farms - it's just common knowledge.

You're right, the kids were not working, still it is a work area and therefore should be under the jurisdiction of the WCB and as such they should be responsible for making sure the parents are aware of what is safe and what isn't.

Sure. But really, the parents don't know this? Like I said, it's knowledge I grew up with and I'm certainly not a farm boy. I think this is just the usual carelessness that develops in all sorts of places. From loggers who are all about "highball" rather than giving some thought to safety, to mountaineers who protested when I said we had to take the ridge to the peak (the safest route) that it would take too long. People just don't seem to keep safety in mind, so often. It doesn't mean you don't do a certain activity (except play in grain piles) but you take the steps to make it as safe as possible, and if that's not possible you don't do the activity.