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Published February 15, 2010, 02:27 PM

Montevideo man killed while moving snow

A man was killed in Montevideo Sunday when the front-end loader he was using to move snow rolled down a hill.

By: Staff Report, West Central Tribune of Willmar

MONTEVIDEO, Minn. — A man was killed here Sunday when the front-end loader he was using to move snow rolled down a hill.

According to the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Department, they were notified about 2 p.m. that Lloyd Koch, 80, was using a loader to move snow on his property and could not be found.

Rescue personnel arrived and discovered Koch and the loader had rolled down a hill behind his residence.

Koch was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

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