Posted on 09/22/2020 12:09:12 PM PDT by SJackson
A young deer hunter was killed on Saturday, Sept. 12 after being run over by a corn harvester. The boy, Jeffrey Powell from Elkton, Michigan, fell asleep shortly after arriving at the corn field to hunt deer, investigators believe. The machine operator, a 25-year-old from Pigeon, was harvesting the field with a large Krone corn chopper.
Emergency responders were called to the field, located in Chandler Township, just before 9 a.m. The machine operator discovered the teenager after driving over him, a news release by the Huron County Sheriff’s Office said.
Combines cut the crop and separate the grain from the plant while processing and spreading the remaining material over the field.
“Unaware anyone was in it [the field], the hunter was accidentally driven over and found by the chopper operator a very short while later,” the Huron Daily Tribune reported. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
You can learn more about Jeffrey Powell and his life here.
A tragic incident.
What a horrible way to go.
I feel for both of them. Poor guy driving the machine had no idea.
Tragic.
Odd that he didn’t wake up as it approached.
Horrible for the kid. Almost as horrible for the guy who ran him over.
What a tragedy for everyone involved.
Prayers.
Come on, ifinnegan. He isn’t a Darwin Award candidate. He is a kid who fell asleep.
Don’t go down that road, FRiend...the poor kid and his family don’t deserve that.
Yes. I can't imagine why he'd be in the corn field, much less sleeping.
God. Just terrible.
Teenage boys sleep so hard. Poor guy
I’m not a hunter, but on foot in the middle of a corn field doesn’t seem like a good place to hunt. Don’t know tall the kid was, but would he even be able to see a deer until it was right up on him?
And even if he was awake, that seems to be dangerous to be in the field when it is being harvested. Did the kid have permission to be there?
As a city kid who ended up in a job selling to farmers it came as a revelation to me how deadly most farm equipment can be. RIP.
First, don’t deer love to munch on corn remenants? I always see them clustered around the edges. And my experience with kids is that they can fall deeply asleep. He may have been wearing earphones, too. That wouldn’t be smart or effective for hunting, but...he was a kid.
Sad.
Very sad...he looks like a great boy
Perhaps there was an obvious deer trail in the field and the boy was just waiting for the deer to come to him.
My party has taken many youngsters with us on deer hunts.
We would NEVER allow a 14 year old hunt unsupervised.
Where were the adults?
From a different article
https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Elkton-teen-killed-in-freak-accident-15562622.php
“Preliminary investigation indicates that a (13)-year-old young man from Elkton had been dropped off earlier to deer hunt in that field and it is believed he may have fallen asleep once there,”
This article says “he may have fallen asleep”. I assume it would be difficult to determine if he actually fell asleep. 13 years old may be old enough to hunt but I am not sure it is old enough to hunt in a place where he needed to be dropped off on his own. There must be some blame placed on the parent who let him go hunting in a corn field at harvest time.
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