The incident happened on the 200 block of West Hinckley Avenue in Ridley Park.
A sanitation worker died after being struck by the trash truck he was working on in Ridley Park, Delaware County, on Tuesday.
The Ridley Park Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers responded to the incident, which happened just before noon on the 200 block of West Hinckley Ave. Responding officers arrived to investigate a “vehicle entrapment” at the scene,There, police found that a 30-year-old employee of a subcontracted trash removal service used by the borough was hit by a truck he was working on earlier. Officials declined to identify the employee.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, Ridley Park Police Chief Robert M. Frazier said. Information about the subcontracted company was not immediately available. How the employee came to be hit by the truck is under investigation by medical personnel, crash investigators, and OSHA, officials said.after being run over by his truck, getting caught under a tire on the truck’s right side. That crash occurred at Ladomus and Delaware Avenues, about half a mile away from where Tuesday’s incident took place.
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