Midland County sheriff says farmer saved by relative after suffering electric shock in accident

Police said a farmer in Midland County’s Ingersoll Township administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation this morning to save a 67-year-old farmer who had stopped breathing after being shocked by electricity in an agricultural accident. William Merrell’s condition was undetermined, though he was alive, late this morning, at a Covenant HealthCare facility in Saginaw, according to Covenant spokeswoman Kristin Knoll. Midland County Sheriff Jerry Nielsen said Merrell “was lying on the ground, face down” when a relative administered CPR, and “within about 10 minutes, he started breathing again.” Merrell suffered electric shock about 9:52 a.m. when operating a sugar beet-hauling semitrailer, directing its bed to lift into the air to dump excess soil from the bed, when the airborne bed touched a utility wire, according to Nielsen.

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