Sure, you could use a dumpster to take a nap. However, make sure you aren’t sleeping during pickup day. A Colorado man recently took a snooze in a dumpster but got thrown into a garbage truck and had to be rescued. 

Colorado man gets stuck in a garbage truck after sleeping in a dumpster 

The Loveland police responded to a bizarre incident after a man was thrown into the back of a garbage truck. The man was napping in a dumpster in an alley when it was picked up by a garbage truck. 

Then he got stuck and had to be rescued by Loveland Fire Rescue teams. Thompson Valley EMS was also involved at the scene, behind the downtown post office. 

According to CBS News, firefighters used a bucket truck to pull the man out of the garbage truck. Then they slowly lowered him to the ground. The man was taken to the hospital to receive care for an injured shoulder. 

It’s unclear if the driver or members of the waste management crew saw the man as he fell in the back of the truck or if they heard him screaming. 

Depending on the type and design of the rear-load truck, the back can be six to eight feet deep. This makes it challenging to escape, especially while injured. 

Being thrown from a dumpster into the back of the waste truck is already pretty dangerous. People can take quite a drop. Plus, they could fall on bags of glass and other sharp objects. 

But the real danger comes from going unnoticed. If the hydraulic trash compaction system is activated to crush the trash, it can severely injure or fatally crush a person. The strength of a trash compactor is between 1,000 to 5,000 lbs of compression force.