DES MOINES, Iowa -- Authorities have released the name of a Nevada man who died Monday in a grain bin accident in Story County.
Marvin Jensen, 72, died when he was trying to fix an auger and fell into the grain bin and became trapped, according to a news release from the Story County Sheriff's Office.
Two other men found the man buried over his head in corn, and tried to free him, the news release said.
Rescue crews spent the afternoon trying to pull a man out of a grain bin in Shipley.
When rescue crews arrived, only the farmer's fingers were sticking out of the grain. It took workers 40 minutes to dig him out. He was taken to Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames.
Three deputies and a firefighther were treated and released from a local hospital for respiratory problems caused by the grain dust, the release said.
Every year you hear stories like this here in Iowa... what a nightmare. It always sounds like a horror movie to me. Being immersed in something where I can't breathe -- that is the method of expiration which most makes me break into a cold sweat of fear.
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