Four-year-old crushed, killed by tractor tire is Ontario’s eighth on-farm fatality this year

MOUNT FOREST — A four-year-old boy died after a tractor tire fell on him at his family’s farm at Mount Forest in Grey County on July 4.

Police say Marcus Frey was playing when the dual tire — which was leaning against a barn — tipped over.

Marcus is the eighth on-farm farm-related death in Ontario in 2015, and the second child. On May 31, an 18-month-old girl drowned in a barn’s water trough in Huron County.