Sanitation worker dies after falling from truck on first day on job

A South Carolina sanitation worker died Monday after falling from the back of a garbage truck on his first day on the job, according to Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler. The coroner identified the worker as 32-year-old John Derrick Dover of Goucher-Green Bethel Road in Gaffney. Fowler said Dover was one of two workers riding on the rear platform of a garbage collection truck as crews emptied…