Norfolk OPP are investigating the death of a farm worker.

Emergency crews were called to a Colonel Talbot road address in Courtland around 12:30 Saturday afternoon.

Police say a 52 year old man was working in a tobacco field and somehow got pinned underneath a tractor and suffered life threatening injuries.

He was transported to Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead

The name of the deceased is not being released until next of kin is notified.