There are a few key yet simple operational tips that every operator can use to get more uptime, better results and even increased safety with backhoe operation. In the most basic sense, a ...

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 ...

You've wanted a backhoe since age 6. So rent one! Here are the basics of the 7-ton behemoth. An equipment operator from Windsor, Ontario, Nick Market has been called the "best of the best" of backhoe ...

A backhoe operator had a right to be on train tracks periodically on the weekend an Amtrak train slammed into it, killing the operator and a supervisor, federal crash investigators said Monday. The ...

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.

ST. PETER, Minn. (WCCO) -- Authorities said an operator of a backhoe that fell into a creek while clearing ice jams between St. Peter and Mankato is presumed dead. Michael Struck, 39, was a nine-year ...

A backhoe operator drowned in a river in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental after he got stuck inside the vehicle that tipped over.