Authorities say a central Indiana teenager was killed when he apparently stumbled while moving logs and fell into a hydraulic stump grinder.

The Blackford County coroner said 18-year-old Cody Bronnenberg was killed Saturday at a rural property near Hartford City, 80 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

Sheriff Jeff Sones tells The Muncie Star Press that Bronnenberg, of Yorktown, was working with his uncle, who runs a tree service company.

Cody Bronnenberg, 18, died on Saturday after slipping and falling into a tree stump grinder. Pictured above in a photo from Facebook

The sheriff says emergency crews found the teen tangled in the stump grinder and that he was dead when they arrived.

Officials say he suffered 'multiple traumatic injuries'.

The incident happened around 4.39pm at a property along Blackford County Road 200-N of Indiana 3.

A GoFundMe account has since been set up to help raise money for funeral expenses.

As of Monday afternoon, the campaign had raised more than $7,000.

'Losing your child to a tragic accident is horrible enough. Adding that there is no insurance to cover funeral costs makes matters worse. Please help us raise the money to cover these costs. My sister is a single parent, and cannot afford the cost of burying her child,' Tonya Kirby Evans, the woman who started the GoFundMe page, wrote.