The Murray County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that a 48-year-old man who was trapped in a grain bin near Balaton, Minnesota, on Wednesday was pronounced dead at the scene.
Information gathered at the scene indicates that Bruce Larson of rural Balaton entered a grain bin to install grain handling equipment and became submersed in grain. When Larson was extricated from the bin, life-saving measures were performed by medical personnel, but they were unsuccessful and Larson was pronounced dead at the scene.