An excavator operator escaped serious injury Tuesday morning after his machine tumbled down the side of an eroded embankment while clearing debris along storm-damaged railroad tracks in Santa Barbara ...

The man suffered minor injuries in the Tuesday incident, which damaged the tracks and stopped train service on the rail line.

Excavators provide an ideal platform for working on slopes when they are properly equipped and run by skilled operators. But this type of work requires a greater attention to detail than working on ...

“We’re seeing a growing preference for smaller equipment, as well as more and more mini excavators working near utility lines,” said Trin Ruiz, SPM at CM Labs, in a statement. “We wanted to develop a ...

Did you play with toy tractors and cranes when you were a kid? Construction equipment operators get to work with the real things and earn more money as they master each piece of equipment. But this ...

I am a huge advocate for accountability. If we can encourage our equipment operators to feel that accountability, they will usually operate the equipment more productively (like get more done with ...