By Associated Press - Tuesday, September 19, 2017

TOWN OF TOMAH, Wis. (AP) - Authorities say a man has died after getting caught in a piece of farm machinery in west-central Wisconsin.

Monroe County Sheriff Scott Perkins says deputies were called Sunday night and found 57-year-old Brian Butterfuss trapped in the machine in the Town of Tomah.

Butterfuss had died and had to be extricated from the machinery.



The sheriff’s office and the Monroe County medical examiner’s office are investigating.

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