A 74-year-old cheesemaker in northern Italy was killed Sunday after a warehouse shelving unit gave approach, burying the person underneath wheels of cheese.

Giacomo Chiapparini was alone in his warehouse at round 9 p.m. Sunday within the village of Romano di Lombardia after he and his son had checked earlier on a machine that rotates and cleans mould from the still-maturing wheels of Grana Padano cheese.

“These machines clean and rotate the wheels, so when they find them even slightly out of place, they send a warning. It’s a common problem. So Giacomo and his son went there to adjust the wheels,” Bortolo Ghislotti, president of the Bergamo agricultural district, instructed NBC News.

After fixing the machine, Chiapparini’s son left and Chiapparini went again in to show the unit on.

The warehouse had 10 rows of cabinets, every containing 1,600 wheels, per the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Shortly after restarting the machine, one thing precipitated a shelving unit to interrupt or topple, making a domino impact that buried Chiapparini in cheese.

Chiapparini’s son Tiziano and staff referred to as for assist after listening to the crash, however rescuers weren’t capable of finding the physique till the following morning.

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