BRAMPTON, ND (KFGO) – A man died after he got caught in a grain bin at a farm in southeastern North Dakota.
Sargent County Sheriff Travis Paeper says another farmer who was driving by noticed a running auger with no one around. He checked the bin and discovered signs that the man was loading corn and became trapped in the bin.
First responders and neighbors were able to remove the victim from the bin, but the 71-year-old man died at the scene near the town of Brampton.
His name hasn’t been released.