farm tractor accident kills seymour man

Seymour Herald/Library Photo

By Staff Reports

published: November 22 2007 04:38 AM updated:: November 26 2007 02:48 PM

A man was apparently killed by a freak farm tractor accident Tuesday around 6:00 P.M.

Seymour Volunteer Fire Department responded to a farm tractor accident in the 1900 block of Dripping Springs Rd.

The Firefighters arrived within 6 minutes of the call and found a deceased male victim trapped underneath the farm tractor,

It appears that the unnamed male subject was grading on a ridge when the ground gave way causing him to roll down a 30 foot embankment coming to rest against a tree.

The SVFD used Airbags to lift the tractor off the victim.

Squad 17, Squad 18 and 10 Firefighters responded along with Sevier Co. EMS and Sevier County Rescue Squad's Rescue 1.

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User Comments

#1 Seymour865 commented, on November 23, 2007 at 11:10 p.m.:

Well spell check wouldn't have caught that one, I guess tracker is spelled correctly, lol. Awful though my heart goes out to his family

#2 rightvswrong commented, on November 24, 2007 at 10:20 p.m.:

My thoughts are with the family of this man; you are in my prayers.

#3 from all commented, on November 26, 2007 at 4:04 a.m.:

this was a tragic accident that goes to show that anything can happen at any time and we would like to give our condolences to the family and they will be in all of our prayers

#4 Alecia commented, on November 27, 2007 at 6:13 a.m.:

Who cares what comments were deleted? This is a story about a family that lost someone they love. My thoughts and prayers are with them...