{"id":55989,"date":"2013-06-03T22:20:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T04:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-killed-in-accident-at-landfill\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:37:41","slug":"man-killed-in-accident-at-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-killed-in-accident-at-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in accident at landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emergency scanner calls reported he had been crushed by a trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Fire Department personnel responded to the call. Chief Jeff Vandevoorde reported it appeared the man had crawled underneath the trailer to make repairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething failed and it landed on top of him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Landfill manager Deb Barton said the Montezuma Sheriff Department had taken over the investigation. She said there were no witnesses to the accident and the customer was alone, dropping off a load of municipal trash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our other customers was back there and called to say we needed to get some help so we called 911,\u201d Barton said.<\/p>\n<p>That portion of the landfill was shut down while the accident was investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency scanner calls reported he had been crushed by a trailer. Cortez Fire Department personnel responded to the call. Chief Jeff Vandevoorde reported it appeared the man had crawled underneath the trailer to make repairs. \u201cSomething failed and it landed on top of him,\u201d he said. Landfill manager Deb Barton said the Montezuma Sheriff Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,3093],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-55989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-wreck"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56230,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989\/revisions\/56230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=55989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}