FATAL SKID LOADER ACCIDENT

A REMSEN MAN WAS KILLED THIS WEEKEND IN A SKID LOADER ACCIDENT. THE PLYMOUTH COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER RECEIVED A CALL SATURDAY AFTERNOON OF A SUBJECT TRAPPED UNDER A SKID LOADER.

FIRE AND AMBULANCE OFFICIALS WERE DISPATCHED TO THE INTERSECTION OF 190TH STREET AND POLK AVENUE AT 2:06 P.M.

EMERGENCY PERSONELL WERE ABLE TO FREE 19 YEAR OLD ALEXANDER KEITH RENKEN FROM UNDER THE SKID LOADER.

HIS INJURIES WERE SEVERE AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.

INVESTIGATORS SAY RENKEN WAS ASSISTING ANDREW VASKE IN PUTTING FENCE POSTS INTO THE GROUND.

RENKEN WOULD HOLD THE POSTS WHILE VASKE WOULD PUSH THEM INTO THE GROUND WITH THE LOADER.

VASKE HAD PUT DIRT INTO THE BUCKET FOR ADDED WEIGHT AND WHILE RENKEN WAS HOLDING A POST, THE SKID LOADER TIPPED FORWARD.

THE BUCKET STRUCK AND PINNED RENKEN UNDERNEATH.