Update: Mechanic crushed, killed by truck at repair yard in Fresno identified

A mechanic working at a trucking repair yard died Wednesday in what the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office called a “fatal industrial collision.”

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’s office said, and while deputies gave medical aid, the man died.

He has identified Thursday by the Fresno County Coroner’s Office as 21-year-old Gurpreet Singh of Fresno.

Singh was working in the yard when he “got between a semi-truck (tractor) that was hooking up to a trailer. He became pinned and was crushed.“

Cal-OSHA is investigating the collision, which happened on private property.

This story was originally published April 30, 2026 at 9:34 AM.