Sheriff: Farm worker dies in hay baling accident

Published September 21, 2014 6:25pm ET



ALEXANDER, N.Y. (AP) — The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office says a 23-year-old farm worker has died after becoming trapped in a hay baling machine.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to a farm in the town of Alexander shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday and found the victim, 23-year-old Scott Booth Jr. of Attica, trapped in a New Holland round hay baler. He was extricated by members of the Alexander volunteer fire department and was pronounced dead at the scene by the county coroner.

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