Fatality occurs at Michigan landfill site

The Riverview Police Department in Michigan has notified the public via its Facebook page that a truck driver was killed in his vehicle in early December at the Riverview Land Preserve municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill.

The brief police statement says a truck driver was killed in his vehicle and that the circumstances are presently under investigation.

A report from WJBK includes overhead photos that show a truck trailer tipped on its side and other trucks or pieces of equipment nearby.

According to that report, the driver killed was in a truck marked as belonging to Clinton Township, Michigan-based Priority Waste. Another photo from the scene shows the Priority collection truck in an upright position, but with a semitruck trailer tipped on its side nearby.

The Riverview Land Preserve is a Michigan-based licensed, Type II (nonhazardous) solid waste landfill facility, owned and operated by the city of Riverview since 1968. It serves several suburban Detroit communities, including Flat Rock, River Rouge and Taylor, and in addition to MSW accepts wood waste, construction and demolition debris and some “special wastes.”

Priority Waste operates two transfer stations and serves residential, commercial and industrial customers in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.