A Pottawattamie County man was injured Friday morning during a farming accident in Page County. The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports deputies responded at around 9:24-a.m. 250th and O Avenue, about 5-miles southwest of Clarinda, where a man was getting run over by an implement tire.

An investigation determined 60-year old Kenneth Jay Thornton, of Clarinda, was operating a 2019 Chevy pickup pulling twin anhydrous tanks on one running gear in a field just north of 250th & O. Thornton works for Agriland F/S INC and was driving in the capacity of his employment. He was pulling the tanks to hook up to an Anhydrous / dry fertilizer applicator also owned by Agriland F/S INC that was parked in the field.

25-year old Matthew Mark Marriott, of Council Bluffs, was attempting to load that dry fertilizer part of the applicator. Thornton pulled the pickup between the truck that Marriott was behind operating the hydraulics to move the auger on the truck over the dry fertilizer container. When the right rear tire of the running gear that held the anhydrous tanks went by Marriott, it caught a portion of his body, drug him under the running gear and ran over him.

Marriott was transported from the scene to University of Nebraska Medical Center by LifeNet helicopter for treatment of undisclosed injuries. The Page County Sheriff’s Office assisted the Clarinda Ambulance Service with Marriott and then investigated the incident. No charges will be filed.