Woman Survives Being Compacted After Getting Dumped Into Garbage Truck

(Manchester, NH) — A 60-year-old woman has been hospitalized with severe injuries after being rescued from a garbage truck. Authorities said that the woman, who was not identified, was in a dumpster near an apartment complex in Manchester, New Hampshire when the truck picked it up and dumped the contents into the trash compactor. Manchester Fire Battalion Chief Bob Beaudet told the Manchester Ink & Link that the compactor ran up to four times before a sanitation worker noticed the woman via the truck’s camera system and called 911. The woman reportedly told the firefighters that she was tossing trash in the dumpster when she fell inside and got stuck. It is unclear how long she was trapped in the dumpster.