Abstract: At approximately 10:30 a.m. on March 17, 2008, an employee was performing a regularly assigned task of receiving wet silt, mud from bottom of reservoir, and transporting to a county-owned facility used as storage for asphalt, concrete, prunings, and mud. The employee went to the county site to unload material using a three axle dump truck with a 10 cubic foot capacity. He backed into some material he previously deposited. While backed all the way, he operated controls from cab of truck to unlatch locks for tailgate, lift the bed, and open the tailgate. The employee had been working alone at the twenty acre site. A worker of the County of Kern, Road Department had been on site at the far end of the dump spot. The county worker found the employee buried by wet heavy mud. The employee was pronounced dead at the site at about 2:00 p.m. on same day of incident by the local Coroner of the County of Kern.