{"id":293426,"date":"2026-04-30T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:07:07","slug":"mechanic-crushed-killed-by-truck-at-fresno-repair-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293426\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanic crushed, killed by truck at Fresno repair yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/industrial accident.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Fresno County deputies responded to a call of an injured person at a trucking repair yard in Fresno on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. That person, a man in his 20s, ultimately died.\" alt=\"Fresno County deputies responded to a call of an injured person at a trucking repair yard in Fresno on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. That person, a man in his 20s, ultimately died.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Fresno County deputies responded to a call of an injured person at a trucking repair yard in Fresno on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. That person, a man in his 20s, ultimately died.<\/p>\n<p>            FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFF\u2019S OFFICE<\/p>\n<p>A mechanic working at a trucking repair yard died Wednesday in what the Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office called a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FresnoSheriff\/posts\/pfbid05v2v43hnMQZJhtRYpax3mAUSh8Gri5zb5fDT4JZmzzq3PjYV41YuukZ7dZCVFTH1l\">\u201cfatal industrial collision.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to the repair yard, near Belmont and LaFayette avenues, around 4 p.m. after receiving a call for an injured person at the location. Those injuries turned out to be major, the sheriff\u2019s office said, and while deputies gave medical aid, the man died.<\/p>\n<p>He has yet to be identified, but was in his 20s, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was working in the yard when he \u201cgot between a semi-truck (tractor) that was hooking up to a trailer. The man became pinned and was crushed.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Cal-OSHA is investigating the collision, which happened on private property.<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218451290\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Tehee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Joshua Tehee covers breaking news for The Fresno Bee, writing on a wide range of topics from police, politics and weather, to arts and entertainment in the Central Valley.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno County deputies responded to a call of an injured person at a trucking repair yard in Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-293426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}