NAPPANEE - A Nappanee man died shortly after noon Monday after his excavator rolled over on top of him.
Kosciusko County Sheriff's Dept. deputies responded with the Nappanee EMS & Fire departments to the location of 9457 W. CR 1050N, Nappanee, after receiving a 911 call at 12:18 p.m. of an excavator that had rolled down a ditch and severely injured a subject.
Emergency responders arrived with officers and located Earl R. Miller, 37, of 9612 W. CR 1050N, beneath a Case mini-excavator.
The Kosciusko County Coroner's Office was called to the scene and pronounced Miller dead from blunt force trauma. The excavator had struck Miller as it rolled off the top of a steep ditch embankment where he had been working.
Miller's son had been working with his father when the accident occurred, and the son ran approximately a half mile to call 911 for help.
Miller had been clearing tree stumps from a ditch embankment approximately a mile south of CR 1050N.
