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Authorities identify man killed in Iowa grain silo collapse
The scene of a grain silo collapse Tuesday at the Yarmouth elevator in Yarmouth, Iowa. On Friday, the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office identified the man who was trapped under debris and died. He was Rickey Ryan Kammerer, 30 of Winfield. (John Lovretta /The Hawk Eye via AP)
YARMOUTH, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines County Sheriff's Office on Friday identified a man killed in a grain silo collapse as a 30-year-old resident of the small southeast Iowa city of Winfield.
Rickey Ryan Kammerer was killed in the collapse of a silo Tuesday morning at the Agri-way Grain Elevators in Yarmouth. His body was recovered Wednesday afternoon.
Authorities said two men had just unloaded a semitrailer full of grain into a holding shed at the elevator when they heard a loud bang and began running from the facility as the silo partially collapsed.
Nearly 60 emergency responders, contractors and towing crew members responded to the scene to remove the debris in an effort to reach the man.
Yarmouth is about 12 miles northwest of Burlington in far southeast Iowa.
