A man died in a farm repair accident in rural Amboy on Sunday Afternoon.
According to the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office, at 4:09pm, Blue Earth County Dispatch received a call that a man was unresponsive under a large agricultural tire at a farm on 100th Street in rural Amboy.
Deputies and personnel from the Amboy Fire Department responded.
The victim was identified as 68 year old Douglas Harold Sanders. It appears that Sanders was attempting to move a large sprayer tire weighing several hundred pounds inside his machine shed and became pinned between it and a planter.
Sanders was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The incident remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office.
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