NAPPANEE – A Saturday afternoon accident involving a skid loader has sent a Nappanee boy to the hospital. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputies and Nappanee emergency personnel responded to the address at 10746 CR 1100N, Nappanee, at 4:55 p.m. in reference to a child being run over by a skid loader. Investigating officers were advised that the 7-year-old boy was riding on top of a pallet that was being transported by his father, Mark Schwartz, 32, of 72842 CR 101, Nappanee. Schwartz had recently purchased the property, and was doing work around the house and land. When the skid loader changed terrain from a field to a mowed grass area, the child fell off the pallet and was run over by the rubber tracks. The child was flown by helicopter to Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne, and is currently listed in critical condition with broken ribs and multiple pulmonary contusions.NAPPANEE – A Saturday afternoon accident involving a skid loader has sent a Nappanee boy to the hospital. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputies and Nappanee emergency personnel responded to the address at 10746 CR 1100N, Nappanee, at 4:55 p.m. in reference to a child being run over by a skid loader. Investigating officers were advised that the 7-year-old boy was riding on top of a pallet that was being transported by his father, Mark Schwartz, 32, of 72842 CR 101, Nappanee. Schwartz had recently purchased the property, and was doing work around the house and land. When the skid loader changed terrain from a field to a mowed grass area, the child fell off the pallet and was run over by the rubber tracks. The child was flown by helicopter to Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne, and is currently listed in critical condition with broken ribs and multiple pulmonary contusions.
