When Ance Jones headed to work on the morning of July 8, 2020, he probably expected the same old routine. He surely didn’t figure it would be his last day alive.
Ance, who was employed by Superior Environmental Solutions, was at the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill that day to dump sludge. The site, located in Hamilton County, north of Cincinnati, Ohio, is the largest landfill in the state and one of the largest landfills in the country.
While at the working face, he was knocked down by trash being disgorged from a Cincinnati city garbage truck and was partially covered by trash and sludge. Rumpke employees removed him from the pile and called emergency responders, but Ance shrugged off medical treatment and returned to his truck. He then drove to another part of the site where drivers often park to check in with their supervisors, carry out other tasks, or take a short break before driving off. Ance eventually left the landfill, but not on his own.…