State OSHA officials investigate in at a mobile home neighborhood near Nellis Boulevard and Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, where a man was killed when a section of mobile home he was working on fell on him. State OSHA officials have taken over the investigation. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Police are investigating after a man was killed Thursday afternoon in east Las Vegas. (Kevin Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas police and Clark County Fire personnel perform a preliminary investigation at a mobile home neighborhood near Nellis Boulevard and Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, where a man was killed when a section of mobile home he was working on fell on him. State OSHA officials have taken over the investigation. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Las Vegas police and Clark County Fire personnel perform a preliminary investigation at a mobile home neighborhood near Nellis Boulevard and Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, where a man was killed when a section of mobile home he was working on fell on him. State OSHA officials have taken over the investigation. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Las Vegas police and Clark County Fire personnel perform a preliminary investigation at a mobile home neighborhood near Nellis Boulevard and Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, where a man was killed when a section of mobile home he was working on fell on him. State OSHA officials have taken over the investigation. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Las Vegas police and Clark County Fire personnel perform a preliminary investigation at a mobile home neighborhood near Nellis Boulevard and Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, where a man was killed when a section of mobile home he was working on fell on him. State OSHA officials have taken over the investigation. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
One man was killed Thursday afternoon in the east Las Vegas Valley when a mobile home he was working on fell on him, county fire officials said.
The Clark County Fire Department was alerted just after 2 p.m. to the accident on the 4900 block of Hildago Way, near Nellis Boulevard and Desert Inn Road, Deputy Fire Chief John Steinbeck said.
Fire officials notified Las Vegas police about the accident at approximately 2:15 p.m., police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said.
State OSHA officials were notified and dispatched to the scene. Investigations that include fatalities can take months to conclude, agency spokeswoman Teri Williams said.
