Michigan hunter, 14, dies after being run over by corn harvester: reports
Authorities believe the teenager may have fallen asleep after arriving at the field
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A Michigan deer hunter, 14, died on Saturday after he apparently fell asleep in a cornfield and was run over by a corn harvester, according to reports.
Emergency responders were called to a field in Chandler Township -- located about 240 miles northwest of Detroit -- just before 9 a.m. A farm worker found the teenager after driving over him, a news release by the Huron County Sheriff's Office said.
Authorities said the 14-year-old, of Elkton, had been dropped off in the field so he could hunt deer. The machine operator, a 25-year-old from Pigeon, was harvesting the field with a large Krone corn chopper, according to the Huron Daily Tribune.
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"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 paper reported.
Investigators said they believed the boy may have fallen asleep upon arriving at the field. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The Huron County Medical Examiner's Office has ordered an autopsy.
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The teenager's identity wasn’t immediately released.
The Associated Press contributed to this report