By Associated Press - Tuesday, May 5, 2015

GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) - The Cherokee County Coroner’s Office says a 3-year-old boy has died after being thrown from a Bobcat loader driven by a relative.

WSPA-TV (https://bit.ly/1JNekEB) reports the boy died Monday night in Gaffney. A spokesman with the coroner’s office says the bucket of the Bobcat’s loader was filled with bricks and toppled forward when it became off-balance, causing the boy to hit his head before falling on the ground. The boy died at the hospital.

It is unclear who was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident.

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Information from: WSPA-TV, https://www.wspa.com

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