A local man died on May 27 after sustaining injuries from an accident while mowing grass on his property.
Coroner Earl Piper said today that Edgar Freese, 76, died of blunt force trauma and that his death was accidental. Police responded to Freese’s home in the 1500 block of Jackson Branch Road just before 8 p.m. May 27.
Piper estimated that Freese had been deceased for about an hour or two before police were notified by a neighbor who was driving by and reported seeing Freese on the ground.
“They were driving by and looked up his driveway, which heads up the hill to his house. He was laying on the side of the roadway,” Piper said.
The lawnmower had rolled on top of Freese. His body was in a position like he had been thrown from the mower, Piper said. “The lawnmower, I don’t know if it just, through gravity, went on down the hill. It rolled and came right back up on its wheels,” Piper said.
Piper ordered an autopsy to officially determine the cause of death so that he could eliminate any natural causes that would have resulted in Freese falling off the mower.
