An elderly Louisville man was killed in a lawnmower accident last Friday.

Robert Lewis Hale, 81, of Wayne Rankin Road, Louisville, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Blount County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Blount County Fire Department, responded to Hale’s property on Louisville Boat Dock Road at around 2:30 p.m. Friday.

They found Hale in a stream with about two to three feet of water, and the lawnmower on top of him.

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