Updated: 24 September 2012 | 9:10 am in Disaster and Accident, Public Safety, Regional, Statewide News
Man dies in Muscatine County lawn tractor accident
Man had been mowing roadside ditch on Highway 61 near Blue Grass
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An Eastern Iowa man has been killed in a mowing accident.
Authorities say 69-year-old Donald Fister, of Blue Grass, was found dead under a lawn tractor he’d been using on Saturday afternoon.
Muscatine County sheriff’s deputies say the lawn tractor overturned while Fister was mowing a roadside ditch of U.S. Highway 61.
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