A homeless man who suffered minor injuries when the skip bin he was sleeping in was emptied in the back of a rubbish truck has been offered emergency accommodation.

Key points: The skip bin at the back of a Vinnies op shop was tipped into the rubbish truck

The skip bin at the back of a Vinnies op shop was tipped into the rubbish truck He was discovered by the driver at the next stop and was rescued by the CFA

He was discovered by the driver at the next stop and was rescued by the CFA St Vincent de Paul said the man suffered minor injuries and had been offered emergency accommodation

The man, aged in his 30s, was asleep in a skip at the back of a Vinnies op shop in the northern Victorian town of Kerang when it was emptied into the truck about 7:50am.

The truck lifted the skip off the ground, over the cabin and dumped it into the back of the truck, with the man falling an estimated 2.5 metres.

Ramon Steel, the CFA brigade captain at Kerang, said the truck driver then continued on to another location.

"He had to get out of his truck to shift this particular bin … around so the forks will go into it," Mr Steel said.

"That's when he heard a gentleman yelling in the back of the truck.

"He was relatively unhurt. He had a soft landing in the garbage truck, [he was] just a little bit smelly."

The man fought his way up through the rubbish to get to the top of the truck.

"He managed to get up, probably climbing up on the rubbish and onto the roof of the truck," Mr Steel said.

"But it was far too slippery for him to get down so we were called to rescue him."

Man recovering from 'a bit of shock'

Mr Steel said the driver was in shock at making the discovery and it was lucky there was not too much rubbish in the truck.

"If he had have been compacting the truck, the outcome would've been much different," he said.

The man suffered a broken tooth and back injuries and discharged himself from hospital.

A spokesperson for the St Vincent de Paul Society said the man went back to the shop later to collect his belongings and had a coffee with the store manager who said he was recovering from "a bit of a shock".

The man is known to local volunteers who offered him emergency accommodation and other assistance.