WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |Man dies after hay bailer pulls him in

Man dies after hay bailer pulls him in

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KENTWOOD, LA (WAFB) - Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies report a man died Sunday afternoon after getting trapped in a hay bailer.

According to a spokesman for the sheriff's office, Kenneth Bridges, 60, of Kentwood was oiling the cylinders on his bailer around 3 p.m. when a hydraulic line broke and pulled him in.

Bridges was pronounced dead at the scene.

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