Authorities release name of Didion worker found dead in corn silo
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Emergency crews on the scene Dec. 8, 2020 at Didion Milling in Cambria.
PORTAGE (WKOW) Authorities have identified the person found dead inside a corn silo at the Didion Corn Mill in the Village of Cambria last week. The Columbia County Sheriff s Office said the man was 52-year-old Randal Rote, Waupun.
The sheriff s office said it is investigating the death along with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Rote was working in or around a corn silo in a confined space, according to the sheriff s office shortly before he went missing.
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Wisconsin Ag Connection - 12/10/2020 Authorities say a 52-year-old Waupun man has died in a corn silo at Didion Corn Mill in Cambria.
According to the Columbia County Sheriff s Office, an emergency call was placed on Tuesday morning after the employee could not be accounted for at the facility. Rescues eventually found him deceased inside one of the corn bins.
The incident remains under investigation and the name of the man has not been released.
The Cambria facility is the same place where a contract worker was seriously injured in March after falling 30 feet from a catwalk in a corn dryer. And in 2017, the plant made worldwide news after an overnight explosion killed five employees and injured many others.