An Oregon man survived an ordeal that could only be described as a real-life nightmare. Mendez Perez, 23, was sleeping in a dumpster when it was picked up and emptied into a garbage truck. Perez, ...

COLUMBIA - Columbia residents have the chance to share their opinion on a proposed trash compactor on Hitt Street in downtown Columbia. Columbia Solid Waste Utility will host a public meeting at 5 p.m ...

WEBVTT THE GUY INSIDE AND THAT TRUCK DRIVER ARE VERY LUCKY. >> I HEARD HIM SCREAM. I SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING IN THE TRUCK, AND KEPT QUIET BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT HEAR OR SOMEONE WAS SCREAMING FROM. I ...

A homeless man sleeping in a Dumpster ends up in garbage truck, where the compacting cycle is run twice, and lives to tell about it. He fell asleep in a garbage bin, but somehow he avoided sleeping ...

MIAMI – A man was seriously hurt early Saturday after he was crushed inside a truck's trash compactor, officials said. Capt. Ignatius Carroll, a spokesman for the Miami Fire-Rescue Department, said ...

What started out as routine trash pickup Monday in Rock Hill turned into screams after a city worker found a woman inside a truck’s compactor, officials said. A city worker in a sanitation truck ...

The Hammond Police Department is investigating the death of a man found in a garbage truck Jan. 11.According to police, 42-year-old Jermaine Watts was found in the mechanical portion of the garbage ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — An 18-year-old Dothan mom whose baby died after police say she placed him in a dumpster with a trash compactor last summer is maintaining her innocence. On Wednesday, May 15, ...

A Hammond, Louisiana, man was found dead in a garbage truck compactor on Jan. 11 after police said he fell asleep in a dumpster to escape the cold weather. Getty Images/iStockphoto A Louisiana man was ...