German official trapped in excavator ALLGAU, Germany, May 15 (UPI) -- Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrman was trapped in an overturned excavator at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new road project, German officials said. In the rural area of Allgau, Herrman climbed into the driver's seat of the excavator and prepared to pull up the first load of earth, when the vehicle tipped over, The Local reported. With the front window smashed, Herrman's bodyguards reached in a pulled him out. Paramedics transported him to the hospital to treat minor scratches to the face. "I'm fine, the shock is over," Herrman told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.