The truck somehow slipped onto the back of the lift, or “dumper” as it’s called at the mill. No one was injured in the incident, and mill officials are investigating to find out how it happened, said Ellis Sampson, spokesperson for the mill.
The mill has three dumpers, which lift trucks hauling chips or bark to a certain angle, allowing their contents to be collected.
 An 18-wheeler is prepared to be hoisted up by two cranes at the Temple-Inland paper mill Friday. The truck slipped off one of the mill’s “dumpers” — a device used to lift trucks and dump out their load of wood chips or bark. No one was injured in the accident. DAILY NEWS PHOTO/Jacob Brooks Advertisement |
Sampson said he had never heard of a truck getting stuck in a dumper like that in his 20-plus years at the mill.
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