(KAIR)--A Monday afternoon afternoon accident sent a Horton man to the hospital.

According to a report from Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie, 52-year-old Darren Thorson was struck by a hay express trailer, pulled by a 2003 Ford F250, when the trailer went into the ditch where Thorson was at work in the10000 block of Osborne Road, in rural Atchison County.

Laurie said Thorson was observing power lines for Brown-Atchison Electric Cooperative when the trailer's tires ran over him.

Thorson was transported to Mosaic Life Care, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, for the treatment of unspecified injuries.

The driver of the truck, 40-year-old William Falk, of Atchison, was not hurt.

The accident occurred shortly after 2:15.