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Authorities said Guatemalan nationals working under an alias were found last week in an industrial oven at a cereal factory in Missouri and were working in an operation.
Nicolas Lopez Gomez, 38, Perryville Police Department said.
Officers were taken to Gilster Lee Perryville Cereals at Gilster Mary Perryville Cereals Factory to “sink into a closed industrial oven.” Police said. When they arrived at Gomez, he was dead.
The Perry County coroner was called soon after.
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The Gilster-Mary Lee logo seen at the top of the mixing plant in Perryville, Missouri, just across the street from the company’s cereal factory, a worker died on June 26, 2025.
“The OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) about the accident has investigated the accident,” Perry County Coroner Meghan Ellis said in a statement. “Our office will work with them to determine how this happened.”
Fox News Digital with OSHA and OSHA and Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation Comments, but no response immediately.
A Gilster-Mary Lee truck is located outside the Perryville Mixture Plant on Old St. Mary’s Road, Perryville, Missouri. Cereal plants are right across the street. (Google Maps)
Employment office at the Gilster-Mary Lee location in Perryville, Missouri. The company’s cereals and mixed plants are just across from the old St. Mary’s Road. (Google Maps)
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Its website says Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation has opened 11 locations in three states in three Midwest states. The company has been in operation for 125 years and produces “safe, quality foods” that are sold under private label and food service companies.
In Perryville, Google Maps shows that the company’s grains and mixed plants are just across from the old St. Mary’s Road.
