Media Brands
For owner-operators
For trucking professionals
For contractors
For dealers and distributors
For news on clean trucking
For landscapers
Data Solutions
Identifying active trucking fleets
Construction market intelligence
Ag equipment valuation data
Heavy equipment data & analytics
Motor carrier risk assessment
Specs, VIN decoding and values
Precision targeting at scale

Safety & Compliance

Safety & Compliance
$20.5M Jury Award Against D.R. Horton for Trench-Collapse Injury Overturned
The state Supreme Court ruled the country’s largest homebuilder did not have a legal obligation to a subcontractor's injured worker.
April 21, 2026
Timothy Kono was buried in this 10-foot-deep trench April 9, 2019, in Polk City, Iowa, suffering severe physical and emotional injuries.
Safety & Compliance
Contractor with Long History of Trench Violations Faces $4.7M Fine After Fatality
A worker died and another was seriously injured in a cave-in on a sewer project by Revoli Construction, which has OSHA violations dating back to 1995.
April 2, 2026
Trench Excavator Getty Images Monty Rakusen
Sponsor Content
Stop Wasting Time on Grade Checks
Hemisphere GNSS
Manual grade checks cost time and money. Learn how 2D machine control can improve accuracy, reduce rework, and keep your projects on schedule. Download the free white paper now.
March 25, 2026
Stop Wasting Time on Grade Checks
Safety & Compliance
Excavator Hauler Strikes More Than Dozen Bridges on New York Thruway
“How a tractor trailer driver could be unaware that his load hit more than a dozen bridges is beyond comprehension.”
March 24, 2026
This 2019 Freightliner toting a Bobcat excavator was stopped in Salina after allegedly striking more than a dozen bridges on the New York Thruway.
Safety & Compliance
Contractor Charged With Manslaughter After Trench Collapse Death
The contractor was on site when the employee was partially buried and also faces charges of negligent homicide and reckless endangerment.
March 18, 2026
Michael DiRocco, 60, leaves behind four children and eight grandchildren after his death June 13 in a trench collapse in Norwich, Connecticut.
Safety & Compliance
Kansas Contractor Fined for Repeat Violations After Fatal Trench Collapse
A 54-year-old worker died in a cave-in three years after the company had been fined for not using a trench box.
March 13, 2026
Trench Getty
Safety & Compliance
Alabama Contractor Faces $170,145 in Fines for Trench Collapse
The latest penalties bring the total proposed fines against U.S. contractors since December to nearly $2 million.
January 29, 2026
Trench Excavation Backhoe Getty Images 173847315
Safety & Compliance
Contractor Faces $300K Fine After Cave-in of 5-Foot-Deep Trench Kills Worker
The violations were issued for a Connecticut company the day before another contractor in the state was fined $1.2 million.
January 26, 2026
Michael DiRocco, 60, leaves behind four children and eight grandchildren after his death June 13 in a trench collapse in Norwich, Connecticut.
Safety & Compliance
Contractor Faces $1.2M Fine for Repeat Violations After Fatal Trench Collapse
One of the company's workers died in a cave-in in 2023. Two years later, inspectors found similar trench violations, OSHA reports.
January 16, 2026
Trench Excavation Backhoe Getty Images 173847315
Safety & Compliance
Contractors Fined $300K Combined for Trench Violations in Washington
The general contractor also disregarded stop-worker orders after initial inspections, and repeat violations occurred, according to state inspectors.
January 12, 2026
On July 9, workers were found in Spokane between a 22.5-foot-high nearly vertical dirt wall and 10-foot-high concrete forms without cave-in protection nor safe escape method, according to Washington State Department of Labor & Industries.
Safety & Compliance
Deadly December: 3 Die in Trench Collapses in Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio
Three workers were also injured, including the father of one of the victims who was buried up to his abdomen while his son was completely covered.
December 22, 2025
Hamilton County Urban Search & Rescue Region 6 members work December 5 to remove workers trapped in a collapsed trench in Miami Township, Ohio.
Safety & Compliance
NTSB Investigates Gas-Line Strike That Destroyed Home, Injured 6 (Video)
A doorbell camera across the street captured the home explosion that followed a construction crew striking the underground line.
December 19, 2025
A house in Alameda County, California, exploded December 11 following a natural-gas line strike on a construction site.
Safety & Compliance
Contractor Faces $170K Fine After Worker Crushed by Falling Excavator Bucket
A failed attempt to remove the bucket from him caused a second crushing injury, putting him in the hospital for more than a month.
December 4, 2025
This excavator bucket came unlatched from the excavator's quick coupler June 3 in Washington due to a missing safety latch, according to L&I.
Safety & Compliance
1 Dead, 2 Injured in Trench Collapse; Contractor Has Long History of Violations
The contractor on the project has been cited by OSHA for numerous violations as far back as 1995.
November 25, 2025
The contractor on the project, Revoli Construction Company Inc. of Franklin, Massachusetts, has been cited by OSHA for numerous violations as far back as 1995.
Safety & Compliance
Contractor Faces $140K Fine After Inspector Witnesses Trench Collapses
An inspector showed up on the jobsite and found workers being pulled out of a trench and saw 20 collapses while he was there.
September 23, 2025
'The dirt was undermined and carved in below the wall of the trench creating a high risk of a cave-in of the area where workers were climbing in and out,' says Washington L&I. The ladder was also too low, and the trench box was too small, according to the agency.
Safety & Compliance
Texas Contractor Pleads Guilty to Assault for Fatal Trench Collapse
The trench caved in earlier in the day, yet the 24-year-old worker was ordered back inside. The second collapse killed him.
September 4, 2025
The trench caved in earlier in the day, yet the 24-year-old worker was ordered back inside. The second collapse killed him.
Safety
2 Workers Die, 1 Injured on Sewer Installation Project in Alabama
Three men entered a 20-foot-deep manhole, but only one was able to climb out on his own.
August 13, 2025
Mobile Fire-Rescue conducts emergency rescue operations August 11 at a sewer installation project in Mobile, Alabama, where two workers in a manhole died.
Safety & Compliance
2 Die, 1 Rescued in Excavator Accidents Over 4 Days in N.Y., Calif., Ill.
Two of the incidents involved excavators tipping over, and one fatality occurred when a worker was struck by an excavator.
August 5, 2025
File photo
Safety & Compliance
United Rentals Offers New Safety Training for Workers in Confined Spaces
The program trains supervisors of those working in manholes, vaults, pipelines, storm drains and other confined spaces.
August 4, 2025
United Rentals Confined Spaces
Page 1 of 9
Next Page
Top Stories
The WL1150, Wacker Neuson's largest compact wheel loader headed for the U.S. market.
Compact Track Loaders
Wacker Neuson Brings 3 New Compact Wheel Loaders to North America
The articulating WL750, WL950 and WL1150 range from 8,157 to 13,448 pounds and 56 to 74 horsepower.
Develon's new DTL30 compact track loader
Compact Track Loaders
Develon Gives Glimpse of Its 2 New Compact Track Loaders — No DEF Required
Truck Hm460 Cartersville Ga Jq 251106 0 Y1 A3090
Off-Road Trucks
Komatsu's New HM460-6 Articulated Dump Truck Gets More Traction, Power, Payload
Case Construction Equipment 850N bulldozer on display at ConExpo 2026.
Dozers
Case's New N Series Small Dozers: Same Push, Smarter Performance
The new Yanmar TL50RP with ASV Posi-Track was unveiled at ConExpo 2026. Yanmar and ASV compact track loaders are being combined into one under the Yanmar brand and color with ASV's signature Posi-Track undercarriage. ASV-branded CTLs in North America will be phased out starting this fall as part of the 'One Yanmar' strategy.
Compact Track Loaders
Yanmar’s 2 New CTLs Get ASV Posi-Track as ASV Loaders to be Phased Out in U.S.
Equipment World Contractor of the Year
The Contractor of the Year contest recognizes contractors who have annual revenues of between $3 million and $20 million and exemplify the highest standards of construction professionals.
Learn More
White Papers
Inside the 2025-2026 State of Heavy-Duty Repair
Download the Free Report
DownloadView All