Man dies in accident involving farm loader in Jeging

A 59-year-old man died in a work accident involving a farm loader in Jeging, in the Braunau district, on Wednesday, ORF reported.

Emergency services were called to a farm shortly before noon after receiving a report that a person was trapped beneath a machine. The man could not be saved and died at the scene. The exact circumstances of the accident were not immediately known.

Fire brigades from Jeging, Munderfing and Palting responded, along with the Red Cross teams from Braunau and Straßwalchen, police, a crisis intervention team and the Christopherus 14 rescue helicopter.