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Worker Dies After Getting Stuck in Industrial Oven at Cereal Factory, Police Say

  • On Thursday, June 26, emergency responders including police, firefighters, and EMS attended to an incident at a cereal manufacturing facility in Perryville, Missouri, where a man was discovered trapped inside an industrial oven.
  • A 38-year-old man named Nicolas Lopez Gomez, originally from Guatemala and using the name Edward Avila at work, became trapped inside an industrial oven while reportedly operating a power washer on the exterior of the machine.
  • Emergency responders were able to reach Gomez, but he was declared dead at the location, and investigators have not yet determined how he came to be inside the deactivated machine.
  • Perry County Coroner Meghan Ellis stated that OSHA has been contacted and will investigate the incident, with no suspicion of foul play at this time.
  • This accident highlights ongoing workplace safety concerns at Gilster Mary Lee's Missouri and Illinois facilities, which include 11 manufacturing plants producing food products for over 125 years.
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