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Icy-Neck-2422 t1_j8hulk2 wrote

More color on the story

>Boston 25 News has obtained Novaes’ death certificate, which reveals the Medical Examiner’s finding that Novaes’ death was accidental, caused by positional asphyxia.
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>Under the heading describing how the injured occurred, the medical examiner wrote, “Fell into recycling bin and became wedged.”
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>The death certificate finds “chronic ethanolism” (alcoholism) as a significant condition which contributed to Novaes’ death, but not an underlying cause.
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>As part of the investigation, a police officer, roughly the same height and weight as Novaes, fell into the bin, while reaching into it, and then had difficulty getting himself self out of the container, according the source.

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Hoosac_Love OP t1_j8hwxb3 wrote

I get that I read that. But how does one fall into a recycling bin,the wieght of the fall most likely cause the bin to be knocked over opening the top hatch leaving oxygene to enter the bin.Not the same as a drunk person falling into a bath tub and drowning and garbage/recycling can would fall if a person fell in or jumped in leaving the can open.

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[deleted] t1_j8hykt4 wrote

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Hoosac_Love OP t1_j8hzp2p wrote

If to much weight was thrown into a bin at once wouldn't it fall over opening the top hatch

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kbmurphy217 t1_j8i0ts6 wrote

I don’t think so- live in the area and they are big sturdy bins. I’ve tossed stuff into( piles of heavy books) from a second story window and they barely shuddered

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Icy-Neck-2422 t1_j8i0wgd wrote

It's kind of like the picture on the side of the Home Depot buckets with the baby going ass over teakettle into a bucket. If there's enough mass in there already it's going to be a bad situation.

This is an unfortunate situation for sure.

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