Tractor traps worker in accident near Lot 8
Victim saved after being pinned, suffers only cuts, bruises
By Scott B. Wong
Daily Bruin Staff
A UCLA construction worker was pinned for nearly an hour Monday when his Bobcat tractor flipped at the construction site adjacent to Lot 8.
University police and fire departments and the Los Angeles Fire Department performed the rescue operation and extricated the man from the vehicle’s cage around 2:10 p.m.
“It’s kind of a rare occurrence,” said Sgt. Jeffrey Walton, watch commander for UCPD. “But at construction sites, it happens.”
The worker, who only suffered minor cuts and bruises, was treated and released later that day, said UCLA Hospital Spokesman Alan Eyerly.
A spokesman from Bernard Bros, Inc., the general contractor of the Environmental Services Facility project, declined to comment at the scene of the accident.
Monday’s accident, which blocked off portions of Strathmore Boulevard from Westwood Boulevard to Charles E. Young Dr. West, was not the first in UCLA’s long history of construction projects.
A 19-year-old construction worker was crushed to death by a tractor-trailer in August 1998 as he worked at the De Neve Plaza site. During construction of Sunset Village and Circle Drive from 1990-94, a worker was killed by electrocution.
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