CONSUMERAFFAIRS.com:  HOA faces wrongful-death suit over Dumpster fatality

By Jennifer Abel — 2/13/2014

The widow of a suburban Chicago man accidentally crushed to death in a trash compactor last summer is now suing the homeowners’ association of her condominium complex for wrongful death, pain and suffering.Roger Mirro, who was legally blind, sought the key to his condominium’s Dumpster last summer, hoping to retrieve a cell phone he thought he might have thrown down a garbage chute in his apartment building.According to the complaint filed by his widow, Donna, on the last day of his life, Mirro asked one of the condo association’s board members for the key to the Dumpster. The board member handed over the keys, but “failed to warn Roger of the extreme danger that he would face it he accessed the Dumpster and triggered the electronic eye that activates the stationary industrial compactor which was attached to the Dumpster.”  Read more:http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/hoa-faces-wrongful-death-suit-over-dumpster-fatality-