While supervising the installation of a buried piping network, I heard a loud “pop” and the backhoe arm fell heavily into the trench where only moments before one of the crew was standing. It was a mechanical failure that is not typical; something inside one of the hydraulic cylinders went. Something I have never seen before, and something the backhoe operator has never seen.
We followed all the safety protocols and no-one was hurt, but the incident was written up as a “near miss” because the potential for injury was present. It was a valuable lesson, and I am going to implement new safety rules based on what I witnessed.
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