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Tractor Fatality in Orion Township

June 28, 2018 By Chief Deputy

At 9:46pm Wednesday evening, the Richland County Communications Center received a 911 call of a tractor accident at 30119 County Hwy O in Orion Township.  The report was that a male subject was pinned under a tractor.  Richland County Ambulance, Richland Center Fire, and the Richland County Sheriff’s Department responded.  The incident happened in a dense and hilly portion of the property.  It appeared the victim, Charles Ray of Orion Township, was traveling down a hill on a path on a small Ford Tractor when it went off the path on the right and traveled down a deep ravine where the front of the tractor struck the ground and flipped over.  Charles Ray was pronounced dead at the scene by Richland County Coroner James Rossing.  Access to the scene was made by the fire department’s UTV.  The incident remains under investigation.

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