PIKEVILLE, TN. (THECOUNT) — Christopher Alex Mason has been identified as the victim in a fatal hay bailer accident on Wooden Loop near Pikeville, Tennessee Wednesday evening.

Mason, 30, died after being pulled into a hay bailer on Wednesday, according to Bledsoe County Sheriff Jimmy Morris.

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Sheriff Morris identified the victim as Pikeville resident Christopher Alex Mason. He says Mason was somehow pulled into the bailer while attaching twine around the bails, reports NewsChannel9.

Mason’s father made the grisly discovery.

Geo quick facts: Pikeville is a city in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,608 at the 2010 census. It is also the county seat of Bledsoe County – Wikipedia.