Missouri cereal plant worker dies after getting trapped inside industrial oven

A worker at a Missouri cereal plant died Thursday after getting trapped in an industrial oven that was shut off, police said. 

Police in Perryville, Missouri, about80 miles southeast of St. Louis, were called to a Gilster-Mary Lee cereal plant around 3 p.m., "for a male stuck in an industrial oven that was shut down," according to a news release.

Once officers and other responders were able to get to the man, he was dead, police said.