MOSES LAKE, Wash. (16OCT2013) – A 34-year-old Quincy man was killed last night when he was run over by a farm tractor.
Around 7:30 p.m., emergency responders were called to property owned by Friehe Farms near County Road 4-Northeast and County Road R-Northeast, about seven miles east of Moses Lake.
Deputies learned the victim, Steve Weil, an employee of Simplot Soilbuilders, was helping Friehe Farms prepare soil. For an unknown reason, Weil walked into the field and tried to climb aboard a moving Case model 500 articulating tractor driven by 26-year-old Dusty Fondren. Weil fell, was run over by the left rear tire and died at the scene.
Weil's body is in the custody of the Grant County Coroner whose staff is performing an autopsy this morning.
The Washington Department of Labor and Industries is investigating.
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