The victim is identified as 78-year-old James Knight of Houston County.
HOUSTON COUNTY – WICKSBURG: 5:12 PM Houston County 911 dispatched Wicksburg Fire – Rescue and Houston County Sheriff Deputies to a farm related injury.
When dispatched Wicksburg Fire – Rescue requested Advanced Life Support assistance be dispatched. The initial call was patient was not breathing.
Slocomb Fire – Rescue responded and assisted Wicksburg Fire – Rescue. On the arrival of Wicksburg Fire – Rescue CPR was in progress and continued. On arrival of Slocomb Fire – Rescue seconds later it was a “load and go” emergency transport to Flowers Hospital with CPR in progress.
Shortly after arrival at Flowers Hospital the efforts to revive were called and the man pronounced dead. The Houston County Coroner’s Office was notified. Also Houston County Sheriff Department Criminal Investigation Division was called to the scene by Houston County Sheriff Patrol Deputies.
UNCONFIRMED with law enforcement, preliminary investigation as RSN knows at this time, the man was attempting to hook the tractor to a hay fork. Something went wrong and the man was injured from it.
The accident was located on Dewberry Road in Wicksburg.
