Abstract: At approximately 2:00 p.m. on April 30, 2013 Employee #1 and coworkers were breaking up ice in the easterly culvert using a CAT 315L tracked excavator. The employee repositioned the excavator over the westerly culvert attempted to drive the excavator up the embankment between the road and culverts. Employee #1 was using the bucket of the excavator to help pull the excavator up the embankment. When the employee lifted the excavator bucket to reposition it, the excavator slipped from the embankment and overturned into the river. The excavator landed in the river top side down with both tracks above the surface and the cab below the surface. A call was made to Lake County Emergency Rescue Service. Employee #1's body was recovered from the cab of the excavator, where he was pronounced dead.