A 56-year-old man was killed when he was buried under a 20ft (6m) mound of pinto beans at a warehouse in eastern Colorado where he worked, police said.
Raymond Segura jnr was pronounced dead at the Brush, Colorado, facility of the Kelley Bean Company on Thursday after efforts to reach him alive were unsuccessful, Morgan County Undersheriff Dave Martin said. “We moved several tons of beans to get to him,” Mr Martin said. Emergency personnel had been called to the site at 11:30am on reports of a trapped worker. Mr Martin said dozens of rescue workers and even four inmates from the county jail spent an hour digging to get to Mr Segura, but he was dead when crews reached him. The cause of the incident is being investigated.
