A man has died in an apparent tragic accident at the Ocean County Northern Recycling Center in Lakewood, officials told TLS.
The accident happened shortly after 10:00 AM this morning on Towbin Avenue when the victim became pinned inside a bin.
The victim, a County employee, is said to be approximately 50 years old.
Officials have not yet identified the victim.
Lakewood Detective Bureau and CSI are investigating the incident.
How did he become pinned inside?
He could’ve been working on the inside of it. Maybe welding a hole or something and someone else thought it was empty and dumped something in there
Why does that make a difference…?!?!
So you can make sure that it doesn’t happen to you.
Also, so you can explain to someone else how it happened and sound intelligent when he asks you how it happened.
Why doesnt it??
May the Almighty comfort and help the family of this victim.
I would like at this time to recount a harrowing experience that I had at the Lakewood Public Works while disposing of some items. I was told by a Rov to bentch Gomel after the experience. Hopefully the following description of what happened can prevent anything like this from ever happening again. I came with my items to the area where you stand above different bins to dispose of various types of items. Among my items to dispose of were window shades. I was told by the one in charge to go over by myself to the bin below that had a compactor. The worker turned on the compactor and I started throwing the items into the bin. As I tossed in one of the window shades, the string became wrapped around my leg tightly with the weight of the shade now inside the bin below, making it impossible to untie it. I watched as the compactor was making its way over to the front of the bin and realized that when it reached the shade I would soon be pulled in – Chv’sh! I pulled on the string but to no avail. began yelling for help but the worker on duty was inside the booth and could not hear me. I said a quick tefilla and pulled on the string with all my might, the string cut into my flesh like a knife. With a “pop”, the blind somehow came flying out. and landed at my feet and I breathed a sigh of relief. I am very very luck to be alive. I hope someone reads this who can use the information constructively.
Wow that is a real gomel bentcher
Thank you
I will definitely use this information.
It’s hard to believe that someone in charge of such dangerous equipment didn’t offer to help you. To my knowledge residents are not to be using those machines unsupervised. You are lucky and hopefully you will leave the dirty work for the employees.
They can’t use the machines there. There’s something missing in that man story.
Please no negative comments. I know this person personally and his family is mourning. He has young children and was a stellar, kind man. Please just pray for his wife, parents, sibling, and everyone that knew him.