Employee's Body Recovered From Grain Silo at Didion Milling in Cambria, WI

Cambria, WI — A 52-year-old Waupun man died Tuesday in a corn silo at Didion Milling in Cambria, according to a Portage Daily Register report.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said it received a report at 9:12 a.m. of a missing employee at the corn mill. Initial reports were that he was working in or around a corn silo in a confined space.

Cambria Fire Department, Friesland Fire Department, and Pardeeville EMS search-and-rescue crews spent hours looking for the man before he was located inside one of the corn bins deceased.

The name of the employee is being withheld pending family notification.

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