Several factors can help excavator operators improve their productivity during everyday construction tasks, but the single biggest contributing factor typically circles back to choosing the proper ...

State inspectors say a preventable equipment failure and multiple safety lapses led to more than $170,000 in fines and placed ...

A Vancouver construction company faces roughly $170,000 in fines after an excavator bucket fell onto a worker at a Woodland jobsite earlier this year.

The person whose body was retrieved early Tuesday from a trench in west Bakersfield died after being struck by a bucket that had detached from an excavator, Cal/OSHA reported Wednesday. The workplace ...

WOODLAND, Wash. (KATU) — A construction worker in Woodland, Wash., suffered critical injuries after being crushed by a piece of heavy machinery, Tuesday morning. The incident happened just after 8:30 ...

Somewhere in the Texas Hill Country, a few contractors who wish to remain anonymous slice through the native limestone, a.k.a. Austin chalk, blue shale, not with a trencher, but with a bucket mounted ...

A Vancouver-based construction company is facing over $170,000 in fines after a worker was reportedly crushed by an excavator ...

There is much more to selecting the most appropriate excavator bucket than meets the eye. Tip radius, width, heel depth, weight, ground-engaging tools (GET) and the type of coupler all have a major ...

It's too easy to settle for the usual way of digging trench when soil conditions or limited right of way challenge the textbook prescription for setting up a job. It's a mistake to throw out the ...

The incident happened in June at a jobsite in Woodland. A worker in a trench was severely injured by a 3,000-pound bucket ...