(Near Gackle) The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reports, a 70 year  old man died in a grain bin accident, Thursday afternoon north of Gackle.

A commercial crew was loading grain from bins onto trucks on a farmstead, when they lost sight of him, then, finding tools in one of the bins.

The body was recovered about an hour later.

The man’s identity was not immediately released.

On scene were first responders from fire and rescue squads and ambulance personnel from Gackle and Medina, the North Dakota Highway Patrol and the Logan County Sheriff’s Office.