Missouri cereal plant worker dies after getting trapped inside oven

A idiosyncratic astatine a Missouri cereal works died Thursday aft getting trapped successful an concern oven that was unopen off, constabulary said. 

Police successful Perryville, Missouri, about80 miles southeast of St. Louis, were called to a Gilster-Mary Lee cereal works astir 3 p.m., "for a antheral stuck successful an concern oven that was unopen down," according to a quality release.

Once officers and different responders were capable to get to the man, helium was dead, constabulary said. 

Police and the Perry County coroner's bureau identified the antheral arsenic Nicolas Lopez Gomez, a 38-year-old Guatemalan national. He was moving nether the alias of Edward Avila, constabulary said.

It was not yet wide however the idiosyncratic got trapped. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been contacted astir the incidental and volition behaviour an investigation, Coroner Meghan Ellis said successful a statement. 

"Our offices volition enactment with them to find however this occurred," she said. 

Gilster-Mary Lee did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

Last year, a 19-year-old pistillate worker astatine a Walmart successful Canada was found dormant wrong a walk-in oven astatine the store's bakery department. The decease was not suspicious, police said pursuing an investigation.

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration