This is in my neck of the woods, I thought the same thing when I heard the news report. Kind of like those guns that "just went off" on their own.
tHESE TWO HAPPENED HERE.
A man whose tractor malfunctioned and ran over him emerged without any broken bones, Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks said Tuesday.
Daniel Mason, 33, of 879 Grindstone Drive, Marietta, was listed in stable condition at Marietta Memorial Hospital Tuesday night, a nursing supervisor said.
The sheriff's office and Warren Volunteer Fire Department squad responded around 2:14 p.m. Tuesday to the reported accident at Mason's property on Grindstone Drive.
Mason was using the tractor in a cornfield when it stopped working, Mincks said. When he got off of it to check the machine, it started rolling again, the sheriff said.
"He jumped back on it and tried to get it stopped, and that's when he fell and landed and it rolled over him," Mincks said.
"It ran over him completely; however, it did not break any bones," he said.
Mincks said Mason was shaken up, but might have avoided more serious injury due to the ground being soft because he had been planting.
Riding mower overturns on hill
Less than an hour before Mason's accident, deputies and members of the Fearing Volunteer Fire Department squad responded to an accident in which a man's riding mower overturned while he was using it on a hillside.
Mincks said John Nichols, age not available, of 1020 Caywood Road, Marietta, was mowing on his property when the accident happened around 1:33 p.m.
He was still being evaluated in Memorial's emergency room Tuesday evening.
