Garbage worker falls from moving truck

Man flown to hospital with serious head injury

FRUIT COVE, Fla. – A garbage truck worker was flown to a hospital with a serious head injury after he fell from a moving garbage truck Friday morning, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.

The Republic Services employee, 54-year-old Terry Stewart, fell just after 11 a.m. in the 1200 block of Ribbon Road in Fruit Cove.

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He was flown to UF Health Jacksonville in critical condition.

Detectives are working to determine what happened.


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