Posted September 05, 2017 05:32pm
(KMZA)--A rural Westmoreland man is dead, killed late Monday morning in a farm tractor accident.
Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat identifies the victim as 50-year-old Loren Deters.
Riat says Deters died when the tractor, pulling a hay trailer, overturned, pinning him underneath.
Riat says the accident happened shortly after 11:00 on Bigelow Road, near K13, in rural Westmoreland.
The fatal accident remains under investigation.