Before a backhoe starts up for the day, throughout the workday, all the way until the operator goes home, backhoe safety must be top of mind. Few things in day-to-day construction operations are as ...

A backhoe operator in middle Tennessee was saved on Tuesday after a pit of rocks and dirt he was digging collapsed and buried him alive for almost half a day, officials said. Firefighters responded ...

The operator of a backhoe got an unexpected swim Wednesday morning.Pottawattamie County sheriff's investigators said two men were working with the backhoe around 9:30 a.m., when it somehow tipped and ...

Clifton Carr climbs up to the cab of the nearly 8-ton machine and buckles himself in with a neon safety belt. He moves his sunglasses from his eyes to the brim of his hat, then waits for his mark.

TROY, Mo. -- A Hannibal backhoe operator was killed at 8:35 a.m. Tuesday when he attempted to jump from the backhoe as it was sliding down a steep embankment on U.S. 61, about four-tenths of a mile ...