BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 29-year-old Arvin man died after being crushed while working on an oil rig in Fresno County Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on Monday, December 1, 2025, at around 10:45 a.m., a 911 call was made to report an injured man in a field near Mt. Whitney and Polk Avenues in Riverdale.<\/p>\n
Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s deputies and EMS members arrived and found a 29-year-old man, identified as Alfredo Oronia of Arvin, who died as a result of severe injuries he suffered.<\/p>\n
FCSO said a preliminary investigation showed that the victim was working as part of a company to remove an oil rig from the property. During the process, a large piece of steel from the rig swung down and crushed the man.<\/p>\n
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal\/OSHA) was contacted to conduct an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 29-year-old Arvin man died after being crushed while working on an oil rig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-80507","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\/80507","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=80507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}