DENVER, Colo. -- A Denver man is lucky to be alive after a horrifying trash compactor accident over the weekend.
"It's unimaginable what it must have been like for him," a friend of the victim told Denver station KMGH.
"And he was reaching down to get it for her and fell head first down the chute," said Liz DiSalvo, Walsh's friend.
The weight-activated machine partially crushed Walsh's head, torso and lower body, breaking both of his legs, fracturing his skull in two places and rupturing the arteries in his neck.
Friends and colleagues at the pizza joint where Walsh works have now set up a GoFundMe site.
"Because he would do the same for me," DiSalvo said.