The boy from Livingston County was visiting the Silver Lake State Park sand dunes with his family Friday, July 4, and was digging a hole in the sand, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The sand then collapsed on the boy, burying him in the sand “for more than five minutes,” officials said.

A 9-year-old boy has been released from the hospital after he was briefly buried by collapsing sand last week at Silver Lake State Park in Oceana County, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said.