911 caller describes nursing home crash: ‘We just got hit by a trash truck’

UPDATE @ 3:45 p.m. (June 25): 

A woman called 911 and described the scene just moments after a Rumpke garbage truck crashed into to the Greenewood Manor nursing home in Xenia last week, according to the call, obtained by this news outlet.

“I’m at 711 Dayton Xenia Road, Greenewood Manor, the nursing home, and we just got hit by a trash truck,” the woman says in the call.

“It went through the back of the building. It is half in and half out.”

The crash injured the Rumpke driver, Timothy Plemons, 58, of Dayton, but he suffered injuries believed to be non-life threatening.

No one was inside the offices in the wing where the truck crashed into the building.

UPDATE @ 12:22 p.m. (June 22):

Body camera footage obtained through a public records request shows police and fire personnel rushing to help a trash truck driver for Rumpke who crashed into a Xenia nursing home.

Timothy Plemons, 58, of Dayton, suffered injuries not believed to be life threatening, according to a crash report.

No citations have been issued in the crash, according to the report.

The report shows that Plemons was driving northwest on a private driveway when he drove of the left side of the road.  Plemons then drove off the right side of the road before he hit a tree and the building, the report shows.

Xenia police are continuing to investigate the cause of the crash.

UPDATE @ 2:15 p.m. (June 21): The Rumpke trash truck has been pulled from the building it crashed into this morning.

The office the Rumpke trash truck hit was the home administrator's office, Greene County Administrator Brandon Huddleson said. The nursing home administrator was in the front of the building and was not injured.

"We've had some of these issues before [a car hit the treasurer's office on Main Street some time ago]... I wasn't expecting to see a trash truck actually inside our building," he said.

Huddleson said, "by the grace of God, the folks that were in those offices were out in the field or out in other places in the building."

He noted it's hard to imagine that anyone who would have been in the building could have escaped.

There are about 50 residents in the building, but the entire wing where the truck hit is all administrative/maintenance offices.

There was some ancillary flooding in the damaged portion of the building, because of the sprinkler system that activated. Otherwise, he said, it's business as usual at the nursing home.

UPDATE @ 12:45 p.m.: 

A building support will have to be installed at the Greenewood Manor nursing home before the Rumpke trash truck lodged inside a wing of offices can be pulled out, Greene County building inspectors said.

No employees were in the wing when the truck crashed into the home, 711 Dayton Xenia Road, about 8:45 a.m.

A Rumpke official said the company and police are continuing to investigate the incident.

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The trash truck driver was taken to Greene Memorial Hospital, where he was to be treated for non-life threatening injuries, Xenia police said.

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FIRST REPORT

A trash truck has crashed into a nursing home on Dayton Xenia Road in Xenia Thursday morning.

Fire crews were initially dispatched to the Greenwood Manor,  711 Dayton Xenia Road, around 8:45 a.m. on reports of a fire alarm from the building.

While crews were still responding, dispatchers said a trash truck had crashed into the building.

Initial reports indicate one person was injured in the crash and the wing where the crash occurred has been evacuated.

Additional details were not available.

We have a crew on the way and we’ll update this page as we learn more.

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