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SC man dies in accident at grain silo on farm

The incident happened Tuesday morning at a Saluda County farm.

SALUDA COUNTY, S.C. — A South Carolina man has died after after a workplace accident at a silo on a South Carolina farm. 

Saluda County Coroner Keith Turner told WRDW-TV that Miguel Angel Olvera-Perez, 67, was killed Tuesday morning while working at a grain silo. The incident happened at Columbia Farms near Monetta. 

Turner says Olvera-Perez was working in the silo when he caught caught in an auger, which is a drilling device. 

Turner said it took four hours to remove Olvera-Perez's body from the silo. An autopsy on him will be performed Wednesday. 

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