On June 10, 2008, a 59-year-old Cherokee County, South Carolina employee was driving a garbage truck in Gaffney, South Carolina when a flat bed truck carrying tree limbs passed his car. While passing, a tree limb fell off and hit the man in the head through the open driver’s side window.

The man was killed in the on-the-job accident. The impact of the tree limb caused the garbage to run off the road and overturn. Two other workers in the truck were not injured.

Source: “Garbage truck driver killed by tree limp,” Charlotte Observer, June 11, 2008.