The invention relates to a wheel-side differential lock axle for an engineering vehicle and belongs to the technical field of manufacturing of engineering vehicle chassis type rear axle assemblies. The wheel-side differential lock axle comprises a rear axle housing assembly, a main reducer assembly, a hub brake drum assembly, a brake assembly and a half axle, wherein the main reducer assembly comprises a main reducer housing, a working cylinder assembly, a shifting fork shaft, a shifting fork, a fixed meshing sleeve, a slidable meshing sleeve, a half axle gear, a left differential carrier, a right differential carrier, a driven bevel gear, a cross axle, a planet gear, a drive bevel gear, a flange assembly and the like. The wheel-side differential lock axle has the advantages that when the wheels of the engineering vehicle traveling on a road surface with bad working conditions slip, the meshing sleeves of the differential lock structure allow the differential carriers and the half axle to be integrally connected so as to allow a differential mechanism to lose the differential effect temporarily, and the vehicle can travel normally; the wheel-side differential lock axle is high in bearing capacity, high in fatigue resistance, good in brake performance and the like, the passing capacity of the whole engineering vehicle is good, and the wheel-side differential lock axle is suitable for being used by various engineering vehicles in construction sites of various working conditions.