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Garbage truck hits, kills sanitation worker in Melville

A sanitation worker was hit and killed Monday morning by his own garbage truck in Melville. Suffolk police say it happened as the garbage truck was slowly backing up on Weinmann Boulevard near Raintree

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Sep 21, 2015, 10:08 PM

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