A 42-year-old Ames man died when he was caught in a hydraulic loading door early Friday morning.
The man, whose name has not been released, was working partially inside a water tanker truck's tank at Manatts Construction when the door closed on him, as reported in the Des Moines Register.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Â
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