A 32-year-old convict who was employed at a local coffee farm as part of the prison gang has died after falling into a coffee drying machine.

Victim Marcos Antonio de Oliveira was working near the elevator system that transports coffee beans from storage to the dryer on a rural property in Sao Mateus, in the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil, on Friday, 23rd May.

He was serving a semi-open sentence and had been working at the coffee drying plant for two months when he died after he fell into the machinery.

Emergency services and other employees broke down a wall with the help of a backhoe to try to save the man, but the victim was removed from the machine already dead.

He was found buried under the coffee beans and was pronounced dead on the spot.

The Justice Department reported that the man had been in and out of the prison system since March 2014 for drug trafficking and possession and sale of firearms.

The body was sent for an autopsy.

The military detailed that the death occurred in the system that transports the coffee beans from the storage point to the dryer.

Police have initiated an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.

(MJ Leidig/newsX)