MATTAWA, Wash. (11APR2015) – A 57-year-old Mattawa man died Saturday afternoon April 11 in a farm tractor accident near Mattawa.
Daniel Martinez-Cortez was driving an Evans Fruit Company-owned Ford farm tractor towing a spray trailer south in the 30,000 block of Road O-Southwest, about nine miles southeast of Mattawa. Around 3:30 p.m. the tractor left the west side of the road. Martinez-Cortez overcorrected causing the tractor to roll. Martinez-Cortez was ejected from the open cab and the tractor landed on top of him. He died at the scene.
The state Department of Labor and Industries is investigating.
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