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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.