ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) – Stearns County authorities say a Freeport man drowned when the skid loader he was driving broke through the ice on an abandoned manure pit on his farm.

The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office says 46-year-old Duane Herzog was submerged for about 20 minutes Tuesday afternoon before rescuers were able to remove him from the machine and pulled him out of the water.

Herzog later died at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.