Two men die in grain bin accidents
RUSK COUNTY – Two men are dead in two unrelated grain bin accidents this month.
According to the Rusk Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, a Glen Flora man died after he was pulled from a corn bin on Thursday, September 19.
The fatality occurred at the Sheldon Co-op in the Village of Sheldon. While Kevin Wiemer, 58, of Glen Flora was rescued from the corn bin, Sheriff Jeffrey Wallace says life-saving measures were unsuccessful. Wiemer was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 74-year-old Minnesota man also suffered the same fate after being trapped inside a grain bin on a farm in Faxon Township just west of Belle Plaine.
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