{"id":750,"date":"2026-05-22T22:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:33:43","slug":"denver-man-crushed-in-garbage-truck-sues-waste-disposal-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Denver man crushed in garbage truck sues waste disposal company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Denver man has filed a negligence lawsuit against a waste management company after a dumpster he was sleeping in was emptied into a garbage truck, where he and the rest of its contents were crushed by the truck\u2019s compactor.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=748\">NASCAR\u2019s Kyle Busch was short of breath, coughing up blood day before his death, 911 call reveals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven Egloff filed the lawsuit Monday in Denver District Court against Waste Connections of Colorado, the company responsible for emptying the dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>The suit follows more than a year after the April 2025 near-fatal crushing, when a truck picked up the RiNo neighborhood dumpster in which Egloff was sleeping and collected its contents. Egloff was dropped on his head and body, and the truck continued driving before its driver started the compactor. The driver heard Egloff\u2019s screams during the truck\u2019s next stop and called 911, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Egloff sustained \u201ca large scalp laceration with degloving injury,\u201d meaning that the skin was ripped off, the lawsuit alleges. He broke several ribs, as well as his right upper arm in at least two places. He also broke one of the vertebrae in his spine. He had to be rescued from the truck and required \u201cextensive hospitalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suit accuses Waste Collections of negligence for failing to take steps to prevent Egloff\u2019s injuries, like requiring checks of the dumpster or the back of the truck before driving off and starting the compactor. It also alleges the company failed to properly train its staff to prevent such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividuals experiencing homelessness are known to seek shelter inside commercial dumpsters, particularly during freezing weather, overnight, and early-morning hours,\u201d the lawsuit alleges. \u201cThe risk that a person may be inside a commercial dumpster is a known and foreseeable hazard in the commercial waste-collection industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=746\">Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence, citing her husband\u2019s health<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company did not immediately return messages seeking comment Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was first reported by Westword.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael D. Rex, Egloff\u2019s lawyer, said in an email that his client had climbed into the dumpster because it was cold and he didn\u2019t have a jacket. He is now recovering in Louisiana with his sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Egloff believed he was going to die as the compactor crushed him, as any reasonable person would,\u201d Rex wrote. \u201cHe described hearing his bones break over the sound of the truck and industrial equipment; he compared the sound of his bones breaking to the sound of .22 rifle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Egloff\u2019s incident was among at least three dumpster-related incidents in Colorado in the past year. In January, a Loveland man went missing after he entered a dumpster but never exited; the dumpster was later emptied and its contents driven to a landfill, where law enforcement later spent four days unsuccessfully searching for the man.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a Pueblo man died after he was discovered in the back of a garbage truck. One of the truck\u2019s operators found him seriously injured after the truck\u2019s compression cylinder was stuck, according to Fox21.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=744\">Denver barbecue destination adds outpost in Sedalia<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Denver man has filed a negligence lawsuit against a waste management company after a dumpster he was sleeping in was emptied into a garbage truck, where he and the rest of its contents were crushed by the truck&#8217;s compactor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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