Man Killed in Tractor Accident in Pickaway County

A man was killed in a tractor accident at a farm in eastern Pickaway County Monday evening.

William Bresler, 58, of rural Stoutsville, was operating a tractor pulling a bush hog through a farm along Winchester Southern Road, south of Heigel Road near the Fairfield County line, when the tractor drove into a hole. Bresler was thrown from the machine and then run over by the tractor and bush hog in the 4:50 p.m. accident.

Bresler was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.