DSNY Hosts 2018 Graduation, Promotion and Awards Ceremony

Two sanitation workers who, while traveling on their organics collection route, heard an altercation. They saw a woman on the ground, screaming and being assaulted by a man. The two workers chased and restrained the man until police officers arrived and made an arrest.

A sanitation worker witnessed a hit and run—a car hit a pedestrian—while working in Manhattan. The worker quickly jumped from his vehicle and pulled the pedestrian away from the traffic lane to avoid being hit by another vehicle. A Port Authority Officer and an EMT responded to the scene, and the pedestrian was taken to the hospital for treatment.

A sanitation worker, who was driving a collection truck over the Verrazzano Bridge, witnessed an overturned tractor-trailer. The worker safely pulled over and removed the injured tractor-trailer driver from his overturned rig. The worker then waited until police arrived on scene and went on to finish his assigned work.

A sanitation worker—the department’s first female sanitation worker to receive a Medal of Valor—heard a colleague screaming from inside the garage. The colleague had been performing a routine mechanical broom wash when his arm was pulled into the broom’s mechanical operation. The worker immediately shut down the broom and helped the colleague free his arm. The police and fire departments were notified, and the injured man was transported to the hospital for treatment of broken bones and lacerations.