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Beaver man killed in tractor accident
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A man from Beaver was killed Sunday when he was dragged underneath a tractor.
Richard D. Porter, 52, was working with his cousin to move large logs onto a trailer with the tractor about 1:40 p.m. in Highland, Clarion County.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, Mr. Porter started the tractor while standing next to it, and because it was in gear on a slight downhill grade, it began moving.
Mr. Porter ran along next to it, police said, either to get onto it or to stop it, but was dragged underneath.
The tractor crashed into a pickup truck and stopped. Those on the scene used floor jacks to get the tractor off Mr. Porter, police said, but he was pronounced dead at Clarion Hospital.
Read more: Beaver man killed in tractor accident
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A man from Beaver was killed Sunday when he was dragged underneath a tractor.
Richard D. Porter, 52, was working with his cousin to move large logs onto a trailer with the tractor about 1:40 p.m. in Highland, Clarion County.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, Mr. Porter started the tractor while standing next to it, and because it was in gear on a slight downhill grade, it began moving.
Mr. Porter ran along next to it, police said, either to get onto it or to stop it, but was dragged underneath.
The tractor crashed into a pickup truck and stopped. Those on the scene used floor jacks to get the tractor off Mr. Porter, police said, but he was pronounced dead at Clarion Hospital.
Read more: Beaver man killed in tractor accident