'Emotions are raw:' Mother reacts to fine against area sanitation company in son's death

The mother of a man killed when the sanitation truck he was working with crushed him is sharing her story, one day after the business that operated that truck was fined by a federal agency.

"It was straight out of a movie," says Kelly Kerstetter.

Nearly six months after the incident, she says it has not gotten any easier.

On January 17th, authorities say 38-year-old Nathen Kerstetter was on the back of a Newman Hill garbage truck.

While on their route in Port Matilda, the driver, who state police identified as Dennis Butler, backed into a tree.

Kerstetter was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering blunt force trauma to the head.

Kerstetter's mother Kelly says that when she was told about the incident, she didn't believe what authorities were saying could be true.

"I had just been talking to my son the day before and then he's gone the next day and then the next day I was planning his funeral. The emotions were raw. The emotions are still raw. It doesn't get better. I have my bad days and my not so bad days. I cried for hours last night so it's really not gotten any easier."

She says Newman Hill garbage trucks continue to go by her home weekly, which hasn't made the healing process easier.

"Those sightings and seeing them here are not going to go away for a long time. That's a hard thing for me to go through every week."

Now, the following an investigation.

Officials say the crash report also cited the truck driver for "careless backing onto a roadway."

"Do I think $16,000 is enough? No, but is any amount of money enough? You can't put a price tag on your child's head and no amount of money is going to bring him back."