BRAD HORN/Nevada Appeal Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators work in Pleasant Valley after a 41-year-old man working on the Highway 395 Extension died in an accident involving the road grader he was operating Friday.
A 41-year-old worker was killed Friday in an accident on the construction of the new freeway bridge in Pleasant Valley.
According to Deputy Darrin Rice of the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, the accident happened about 5:19 p.m. as the Ames Construction employee was operating a road grader about a quarter mile up the hillside where a bridge is under construction as part of the Highway 395 Extension in Pleasant Valley.
"The grader drifted off of the road and started heading down an embankment. He jumped off and it ran over him causing fatal injuries," Rice said. The man's name is being withheld until his next of kin are notified.
The grader continued down the hillside stopping short of Pagni Road. No one else was injured.
Rice said the incident is being investigated by Washoe County detectives. Investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration were also on hand to aid in the investigation and conduct their own industrial investigation, he said.
The I-580/Highway 395 Freeway Extension is a nine-mile-long segment between Reno and Carson City.
According to the Nevada Department of Transportation, this section requires extensive bridging and sidehill construction.