Dump Truck Overturns Fatality Report

Worker seriously injured after dump truck overturns at Mesa construction site.

MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS5) — Rescue crews pulled a man from an overturned dump truck at a Mesa construction site Thursday afternoon.

Mesa Fire and Medical Department Deputy Chief Forrest Smith says the accident happened just after 3 p.m. at a construction site south of the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway near Higley Road and Longbow Parkway.

Smith says the Komatsu heavy haul dump truck overturned with a driver inside and it flipped on it’s back. The driver was in the caged driver’s compartment of the truck.

The driver, a man in his 30’s, is being flown to a trauma center with life-threatening injuries, says Smith.

Mesa Police will be on the scene looking into the cause of the accident. The driver of this heavy duty dump truck was injured after it overturned Thursday afternoon in Mesa. A man in his 30’s was taken to a hospital with life threatening injuries Thursday in Mesa after an accident on a construction site.

Officials in Mesa say a dump truck overturned at a construction site Thursday afternoon injuring the driver.

The driver of a dump truck that overturned was taken to a hospital with life threatening injuries Thursday afternoon.

A Komatsu heavy haul dump truck overturned at a Mesa construction site with a driver inside.