(KNSI) – The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office says a man is dead after a workplace accident Friday afternoon.
32-year-old Keith Kingsley was working to sanitize the inside of a turkey barn while pulling a trailer with a tractor at a business on County Road 186 in Melrose Township. First responders said when they arrived on the scene, Kingsley had become entangled in the power take-off shaft of the tractor he was on. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Midwest Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy. The accident is under investigation.
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