To provide an operating lever high in safety in a work vehicle, which prevents a controlled body from being actuated even if the operating lever is accidentally tilted.

In a work vehicle mounted with a controlled body capable of being operated by an operating lever 10, a sensor 13 is buried in the grip part of the operating lever 10, and the controlled body is so constituted that it can be operated by the operating lever 10 based on a signal detected by the sensor 13. The sensor 13 is a contact sensor, and the contact sensor is buried so as to be disposed in a groove 12 formed in the grip part of the operating lever 10. The sensor 13 is of a deep switch, the deep switch is wound so as to be disposed in the grip part of the operating lever 10, and concurrently its circumference is covered with a cover body.