A Denver man says he fell asleep in a dumpster and almost didn’t wake up after being crushed. Now he’s suing.
Steven Egloff filed a lawsuit against the Waste Connections of Colorado garbage company on May 18, alleging that he was crushed by a dumpster last year. According to his attorney, Michael Rex, the incident led to fractures in Egloff’s arms, ribs and spine, along with lacerations to the head. During the incident, Egloff also reportedly suffered a degloving injury, when top layers of skin and tissue are torn away from underlying muscle.
A homeless man at the time, Egloff says he was sleeping in a commercial dumpster in the RiNo neighborhood at around 5:30 a.m. on April 16, 2025, when a Waste Connections front loader truck picked up the dumpster and dropped him, along with the garbage, into the truck. The driver, who was not named, then started the truck’s internal compactor, crushing Egloff, according to the complaint…