Lawn tractor accident kills one

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BY: Kate Pabich
kpabich@cbs4qc.com

A Bluegrass man is dead after getting trapped underneath his lawn tractor.

Saturday, just after four o'clock p.m. the Muscatine County Sheriffs Department responded to a call about an accident off Highway 61.

69-year-old Donald Fister was found dead under his tractor at the base of a ditch he had been mowing.

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