A 15-year-old boy is dead following a tractor rollover on a farm near West Montrose, north of Waterloo.

Police, fire and ambulance workers were called to the Samuel Weber farm on Jigs Hollow Road around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

“The young man was driving a tractor and it was pulling a trailer, going down a hill,” says police spokesperson Olaf Heinzel.

“At some point, the rig jackknifed and the trailer caused the tractor to flip over. The young man was pinned underneath.”

The boy was out from the trailer by the time firefighters arrived on the scene.

Firefighters performed CPR on the boy until EMS personnel got to the farm.

The boy was transported by ambulance to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

His name has not been released.

Police say the teen was not part of the family that runs the farm, but was a neighbour who was helping out.

Mennonite children who have reached the age of 14 are allowed to leave school to work on farms.

The teen’s death is the second serious incident involving a farm tractor in the area this week. Monday morning, a Drayton-area man was killed when the tractor he was riding rolled into a ditch.

Heidi Wagner, a farm safety official with the Woolwich Community Health Centre says the incidents are a reminder that farm safety should always be top of mind.

“Machinery doesn’t stop just because you’ve got your arm or your hand in it. It will keep going,” she says.

Wagner visits area schools to educate students about farm safety, and says she’ll be asking students how deaths like this one could have been prevented.