Woman who fell in grain elevator was U of M student

MINNEAPOLIS - A Cottage Grove woman who was attending the University of Minnesota has been identified as the victim in a fatal fall inside a grain elevator in southeast Minneapolis late Saturday night.
According to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office, Emily Roland, 20, died from “multiple blunt force injuries” after she slipped off a ladder and fell into an empty metal grain bin at the abandoned Bunge Grain Elevator.
An emergency call was made just before 10 p.m., and firefighters deployed “technical rope rescue techniques” and worked for nearly two hours to remove Roland. A doctor from the Hennepin County Medical Center was also lowered into the grain bin, the release said.
Roland was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center but died shortly after. The medical examiner ruled the death an accident.
Roland was a 2013 graduate of Park High School in Cottage Grove.
The vacant grain bin is owned by Project for Pride in Living, which issued a statement saying the organization was “saddened to learn of the tragic accident” and that it works “diligently to secure this undeveloped site.”