HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Firefighters rescued a 40-year-old man from a garbage truck Wednesday morning in Harrison Township.
The man told deputies that he was going through a dumpster being the United Methodist Church in Mt. Clemens when the truck lifted the dumpster and emptied its contents into the truck.
The garbage truck driver, a 36-year-old Southfield man, told deputies that he started his trash pick-up route at about 3 a.m. and after several stops he pulled into a McDonalds. He glanced at a camera monitor and saw an arm waving from inside the back of the truck. The driver immediately drove to the fire department.
Harrison Township firefighters were able to get the man out of the truck and he was taken to McLaren Hospital with serious injuries.
No charges are expected.