CAPE ELIZABETH (AP) — Engineers will visit a Cape Elizabeth transfer station that was the site of a fatal injury to see if the facility needs safety improvements.
The Portland Press Herald reports that town manager Mike McGovern says the solid waste engineers from the Portland firm of Woodard & Curran will visit the site this week. Seventynine year-old Herbert Dennison was throwing garbage into a trash compactor at the facility on Nov. 24 when he was struck by a vehicle driven by 72-year-old Christine Sharp-Lopez.
Police say the force of the blow pushed Dennison into the below-ground compactor, which wasn’t operating. The accident is under investigation.
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