A child was playing when he jumped into a trash compactor chute in East Harlem, police said. Cops received a call around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday after the 8-year-old boy who was playing with another child ...

Nov. 6 -- A Denver man is in critical condition after falling into a trash chute at a downtown apartment building and being crushed by the compactor for a couple of minutes before help arrived. Scott ...

The FDNY says a compactor chute fire sent over a dozen people to the hospital Saturday night in Vinegar Hill. Authorities say the fire was in the third-floor compactor chute of a NYCHA building on ...