Man Hurt When Compacted in Garbage Truck

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Updated 2:55 PM ET July 25, 2000

 

OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - A Nebraska man was hospitalized on Tuesday after

being trapped in a city garbage truck where he was compacted along with

several loads of trash.

It took firefighters about an hour to dig the man out from the tightly

compressed refuse packed into the hopper of the garbage truck, Omaha Fire

Department spokesman Craig Schneider said.

 

Keith Quick, 28, apparently had been sleeping in a local dumpster when the

city trash truck came by early on Monday morning. After emptying the

dumpster into his truck, the garbage truck driver continued on his route

unaware that anything was amiss, Schneider said.

 

It was not until several stops and several loads of trash later that the

truck driver heard Quick calling for help. By that time he had been

compacted "two or three times," Schneider said.

 

Quick suffered multiple fractures but was listed in fair condition at the

Nebraska Health System University Hospital, a spokeswoman there said.

 

"We're not sure how long he'd been in the truck or how many times he'd been

compacted. He is pretty lucky," Schneider said.

 

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