A Man Who Was Crushed By A Recycling Truck While Sleeping In A Dumpster Has Died
He was compacted with the recycling.
A dump truck.
A man who appeared to be sleeping in a dumpster and was picked up and crushed by a large recycling truck on Tuesday morning has now died due to his injuries.
The 52-year-old man was in an unlocked dumpster in the downtown area of Penticton, B.C., when the truck driver came to collect recycling around 6 a.m. on April 5.
After the recycling truck picked up the dumpster and emptied all of its contents into the back, the man was "mechanically compacted," police said in a statement to Narcity.
The man was then trapped in the back of the large truck until the driver was alerted that someone was yelling from inside the vehicle.
The driver called 911 once he was aware of the situation, and emergency responders attended the scene.
They were able to remove the man from the back of the recycling truck, and he was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
However, the man later died due to his injuries, police said on Thursday.
The police said that the man's family has been informed of his death. They also said it doesn't appear that the man was the victim of any crime.
The RCMP is still investigating the incident and said that the B.C. Coroners Service is "conducting its own, parallel fact-finding investigation into the death."
Anyone who has any information about the incident is asked to call the Penticton RCMP detachment at 250-492-4300.
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