MONETTE -- A Manila man died Friday when he fell in a grain elevator and was buried in soybeans, Mississippi County sheriff's deputies said.
Jeffery Wayne Brown, 52, was working inside a bin at Wildy Farms on Mississippi County Road 69 near Manila at 11:30 a.m. when the beans "gave way," a witness told Mississippi County sheriff's Deputy Franklin Stracener.
Charles Slankerd told Stracener that Brown stood up in the bin when the beans shifted and began to cover him. Workers said they tried but were unable to keep the produce from covering Brown's face.
Rescue teams from Manila and Monette recovered Brown's body at 1:30 p.m., and Mississippi County deputy coroner James Skinner pronounced Brown dead.
State Desk on 12/12/2015