 At around 6.13 Thursday evening, the Wadena County Sheriff's Department responded to a farm equipment rollover accident in rural Buller Township, north of Staples. First responders arrived to the scene and located a front-end loader tractor lying upside down in the ditch along County Road 30, with the operator pinned underneath it. The operator, identified as 79-year-old John Berger of Fray Z, was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of the accident is under investigation.