AMBOY — A 68-year-old rural Amboy man died from injuries suffered in a farm accident Sunday afternoon on a Blue Earth County farm.
Douglas Harold Sanders was pronounced deceased at the scene, a Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office press release said.
Dispatchers received a call at 4:09 p.m. reporting a man had been found unresponsive under a large agricultural tire on a farm near 100th Street.
When deputies and Amboy firefighters arrived, they found Sanders pinned between a large tire used on sprayers and planter equipment. He apparently had been attempting to move the tire — that weighs several hundred pounds — inside a shed, the press release said.
The incident remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office.