PIERCETON – Kosciusko County officials are investigating the apparent farming death of a Leesburg man north of Pierceton. According to a Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department press release, deputies and emergency personnel responded Monday just before 5 p.m. to the 600 block of Ind. 13, Pierceton, in regards to a farm machinery accident. Officers arrived and located the victim, Daniel Rex Werstler, 62, Leesburg, pinned underneath a farm implement/planter. Kosciusko County Deputy Coroner Tracy Cutler-Wilson was summoned to the scene and pronounced Werstler deceased due to blunt-force trauma. Cutler-Wilson stated that the scene investigation determined that Werstler was working in the barn area while at the family farm when it appears the implement shifted while he was underneath it. KCSD and the Kosciusko County Coroner’s Office were assisted at the scene by the Pierceton Fire Department, Multi-Township EMS and the Pierceton Police Department.
