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CBS News
30-06-2025
- CBS News
Missouri cereal plant worker dies after getting trapped inside industrial oven
A worker at a Missouri cereal plant died Thursday after getting trapped in an industrial oven that was shut off, police said. Police in Perryville, Missouri, about80 miles southeast of St. Louis, were called to a Gilster-Mary Lee cereal plant around 3 p.m., "for a male stuck in an industrial oven that was shut down," according to a news release. Once officers and other responders were able to get to the man, he was dead, police said. Police and the Perry County coroner's office identified the man as Nicolas Lopez Gomez, a 38-year-old Guatemalan national. He was working under the alias of Edward Avila, police said. It was not yet clear how the worker got trapped. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been contacted about the incident and will conduct an investigation, Coroner Meghan Ellis said in a statement. "Our offices will work with them to determine how this occurred," she said. Gilster-Mary Lee did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last year, a 19-year-old female employee at a Walmart in Canada was found dead inside a walk-in oven at the store's bakery department. The death was not suspicious, police said following an investigation.
Daily Mail
30-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Factory worker dies 'trapped' in industrial oven in horrifying accident
A Missouri factory worker suffered a horrific death after getting stuck inside an industrial oven. Nicolas Lopez Gomez, 38, a Guatemalan national who worked under the alias Edward Avila, died while cleaning the massive oven at the Gilster Marylee Cereal Plant in Perryville on Thursday around 3pm, police said. He was reportedly power washing the machine from the outside. It is unclear how Gomez ended up lodged inside the turned-off oven, but authorities do not suspect foul play. Panicked co-workers urgently dialed 911 to try to save him once they realized he was trapped. But less than 20 minutes after first responders arrived, the Perry County Coroner was called to the scene and Gomez was pronounced dead, KSDK reported. The coroner's office is working with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to investigate the harrowing incident. Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, a private food label manufacturer, has operated for 125 years and has 11 locations across Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, according to its website. Gomez's unsettling death comes eight months after a teen working at a Canadian Walmart was baked to death inside a walk-in oven. Gursimran Kaur's charred remains were found by her mother inside a bakery oven of a the store she worked at in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 19. The mother and her 19-year-old daughter had been living in Canada for about three years and worked at Walmart together. The pair had moved from India, where Kaur's brother and father remain. On the day of the deadly incident, her mother could not find her for over an hour, with her phone unusually turned off and unreachable. Then, a bakery section employee pointed out a 'leakage' from inside the walk-in oven - which led Kaur's mother to make the gut-wrenching discovery of her burned-to-death daughter. By the time emergency responders arrived at the scene, Kaur had died inside the industrial oven. Police ruled out foul play in November, but the store was closed until February 3 for renovations. 'It's great to have our customers and our associates back in the store,' Nick Ritcey with Walmart Canada's corporate affairs told CBC at the time. 'Obviously the tragedy is still top of mind and it's something that will be sad forever.' After police said the Halifax store could reopen, Walmart confirmed they would remove the walk-in oven. Walmart spokesperson Amanda Moss told the National Post: 'This is an extremely sad and difficult situation. 'Removing the oven had always been part of the standard remodel program we are implementing across the country. 'Now that the stop-work order has been lifted by the Department of Labor, the oven will be removed from this store and will no longer be used.'
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Yahoo
Worker, 38, Found Dead After Getting 'Stuck' in an Industrial Oven at a Missouri Cereal Plant
A man died after he got stuck in an industrial oven that was "shut down" at the Gilster Marylee Cereal Plant in Missouri on June 26 He has since been identified as Nicolas Lopez Gomez, a Guatemalan national working "under the alias" of Edward Avila, according to police Authorities said it is currently "unclear" how the worker ended up inside the machineA man died this week due to an incident with an industrial oven at a cereal plant in Missouri. On Thursday, June 26, at around 3:00 p.m. local time, the Perryville Police Department (PPD) responded to a report of a man "stuck in an industrial oven" that was "shut down" at the Gilster Marylee Cereal Plant, authorities said in a news release. After arriving at the plant, located at the 600 block of Old St. Marys Road in the city of Perryville, officers, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Perryville Fire Department (PFD) were able to "gain access" to the man, but he was dead, according to the release. Perry County Coroner Meghan Ellis later arrived on the scene after being called around 3:25 p.m. Officials eventually identified the man as 38-year-old Nicolas Lopez Gomez, a Guatemalan national working "under the alias" of Edward Avila, per the release from police. Authorities said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had "been contacted concerning this accident and will be conducting its investigation." "Our offices will work with them to determine how this occurred," they added. Both OSHA and the Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for further information on Sunday, June 29. A police spokesperson told NBC affiliate KSDK that Gomez was "in the process of using a power washer on the machine from the outside" before his body was discovered inside the oven. "It is unclear at this time how he ended up inside the machine," they added. According to its website, Gilster-Mary Lee has 11 manufacturing facilities in Missouri and Illinois, and the corporation has "manufactured safe, quality food products" for over 125 years. The discovery of Gomez's body comes over eight months after a 19-year-old Walmart employee in Canada was found dead inside a store's walk-in bakery oven. The teen has since been identified as Gursimran Kaur, and a GoFundMe campaign set up on her behalf raised nearly $200,000 for her 'bereaved family." Read the original article on People
