The dirt swallowed everything- the backhoe the man was operating as well as the man himself. Only the backhoe operator's head and one of his arms were above the dirt, but he was trapped under the ...

Scouting report: A backhoe’s ability to move dirt with its bucket and dig holes or trenches makes it a multipurpose machine. Backhoes can only rotate 90 degrees to their axis to dump dirt ...

That’s when a wall of dirt came crashing down onto the backhoe the man was operating, smashing the machine and completely covering the operator. According to Schatz, when the man didn’t notify ...