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 backhoe-loader is one of the most popular pieces of construction equipment in the world, which should place safe operation as a top priority. Because the person in the operator’s seat is the one ...

A backhoe operator was killed when the machine was knocked off the road, according to news reports. A tractor rear-ended the machine as they were traveling on U.S. 70 in White County, Tennessee, ...

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 blood pressure of the man who claimed to have driven the backhoe to the site of the 2009 massacre in Maguindanao shot up under defense questioning, prompting the abrupt suspension of Wednesday’s ...

Not long after Dan Arnit made the biggest archaeological find of his career, he had to go build a parking lot. The news of his discovery—3,000-year-old footprints made by a family walking through ...

MANILA, Philippines—The alleged backhoe operator in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre has been dropped as a prosecution witness and will instead be charged as one of 195 accused. State prosecutors have ...

Among the grisliest scenes in the 2009 massacre in Maguindanao was the retrieval of the victims from their shallow mass grave, hurriedly dug in a bucolic hilltop in Ampatuan town. Several vehicles, ...

The man who operated a backhoe at the site of Wednesday's deadly building collapse in downtown Philadelphia had an extensive criminal history prior to his most recent arrest. Since 1994, Sean Benschop ...