WATERSMEET TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WZMQ) – At approximately 4:00pm (CST) on 12/28, troopers from the Michigan State Police, Wakefield Post, were dispatched to a residence in the village of Watersmeet for an accident.
Upon arrival, troopers located a 59-year-old Watersmeet man who had been working on a skid steer in his home garage when there was a hydraulic failure. The failure caused the bucket of the skid steer to strike the subject. The subject was able to call a neighbor for help who in-turn called 911.
The man was brought by ambulance to Aspirus Eagle River Hospital where he was pronounced dead from his injuries.
Assisting at the scene were Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Police, Watersmeet Township First Responders, and Aspirus Ambulance.
