A man apparently sleeping in a trash bin woke up screaming to the pressure of a trash compacter. The incident happened early Thursday, when a Kansas City waste-truck worker, unaware of the sleeping man, lifted over the trash bin from a shopping center on U.S. 40, and routinely emptied into the truck and started the compacter.
According to the Kansas City Fire Department, the driver stopped the compacter as soon as he heard somebody screaming. The driver jumped in to help the man out but couldn't.
A file cabinet in the trash heap had pressed against the man's legs, Tom Coffman, spokesman with the waste company, Deffenbaugh Disposal Service, told the AP. Firefighters were called at the scene who then rescued the man.
It was not clear how and why the man got in there in the trash bin.
According to Coffman the man survived the 15ft fall from the trash bin to the truck before being compressed at a pressure level of about 2,000 pounds per square inch by the compacter. The extent of his injuries was, however, not clear.
