There was no one in it, it was remotely controlled hence the guy in the back. If you screenshot and zoom in you can see the seat empty.Apparently, that’s how they get their boss to buy a new excavator.Good thing he had safety glasses on, you don’t want to get sand in your eyes, it hurts bad.If that wasn't remotely controlled, the fella' operating it would have been fired just prior to hitting the ground.That almost happened to me one time in a dozer. I was pushing dirt down the side of a mountain to feed it to the loader below. I got real close to the edge showing off. When the dirt fell away from my blade and all I saw was air all I could think was, you just f'ed up. I through the dozer in reverse and it slowly crawled backward up the hill to a flat plateau. When I got up on the plateau I got out of the dozer and shook for about 10 minutes.