SALT LAKE CITY -- A woman was injured Friday morning after being stuck between a trash compactor and a loading dock at Salt Lake City International Airport.
According to an airport spokesperson, a female employee fell between a dumpster and a loading dock around 9:20 a.m.
The dumpster is rampside outside of SLC Airport Terminal One. Emergency crews responded and the woman was taken to a hospital.
Airport spokeswoman Nancy Volmer says the woman was walking up a ramp to drop some boxes in the compactor, and slipped or somehow fell.
Volmer says the woman was alert and talking when she was transported to a hospital.
She is a contract worker at the airport and works for Hojeij Branded Foods.
A previous version of this article incorrectly attributed information from SL Fire Tweets to the Salt Lake City Fire Department.
