Overview
- In Wiesentheid in Bavaria’s Kitzingen district, a 56-year-old worker died at the site on Tuesday after falling into a grain silo.
- Police, firefighters, paramedics, and the federal Technical Relief Agency reached the plant quickly but could not rescue him.
- Fire brigades described a roughly ten-hour operation under harsh conditions to reach the man inside the tank.
- The silo was about two-thirds full, around 85 tonnes of grain-like material that can engulf a person and block breathing.
- Crews first used a roof hatch, then cut a side opening, lowered a rope team, and ran two suction trucks, locating him after about seven hours when a doctor confirmed his death.