{"id":156583,"date":"2018-10-29T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156583"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T14:13:47","slug":"fatality-at-jamestown-landfill-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156583","title":{"rendered":"Name released, fatality at Jamestown Landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update…<\/p>\n

Jamestown Landfill Fatality *Name Release*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamestown (CSi) On October 27th<\/sup>, 2018 the ND Highway Patrol investigated a workplace incident at the City of Jamestown Landfill that involved a fatality.<\/p>\n

At 3:22 pm, the Stutsman County Law Enforcement Dispatch Center received a 911 call of a workplace incident at the landfill.\u00a0 A contractor was working in an area of the landfill and was struck and run over by a dump truck and payloader.\u00a0 The male contractor, Danny Howard, 65 YOA, Grand Forks, ND, was pronounced dead at the Jamestown Regional Medical Center after being transported there by the Jamestown Ambulance Service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dump truck, a 1978 Ford 9000, was unoccupied at the time of the incident.\u00a0 The payloader, a Caterpillar 980G, was being operated by Aaron Wimpfheimer, 45 YOA, Grafton, ND.\u00a0 Wimpfheimer was uninjured.<\/p>\n

When the incident occurred, the payloader was attempting to push start the dump truck.\u00a0 Wimpfheimer approached the dump truck from the rear in the payloader and began to push the dump truck forward.\u00a0 Howard was walking in front of the dump truck when the payloader began to push the dump truck.\u00a0 Howard was run over by both vehicles.<\/p>\n

The dump truck and payloader were owned by On the Level Construction, Inc. from Grafton, ND.\u00a0 Howard and Wimpfheimer are employed by this company.\u00a0 On the Level Construction, Inc had been contracted by the City of Jamestown to conduct a cover project at the landfill and were working on this project at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

The Jamestown Police Department, Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Jamestown Ambulance Service assisted on scene.<\/p>\n

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Reported on Saturday…<\/p>\n

Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports,\u00a0on Saturday\u00a0October 27th<\/sup>, 2018 the\u00a0 Highway Patrol investigated a workplace incident at the City of Jamestown Landfill that involved a fatality.<\/p>\n

The news release says, at 3:22 pm, the Stutsman County Law Enforcement Dispatch Center received a 911 call of a workplace incident at the landfill.\u00a0 A contractor was working in an area of the landfill and was struck and run over by a dump truck and payloader.\u00a0 The 65\u00a0year old\u00a0male contractor was pronounced dead at the Jamestown Regional Medical Center after being transported there by the Jamestown Ambulance Service.<\/p>\n

The dump truck, a 1978 Ford 9000, was unoccupied at the time of the incident.\u00a0 The payloader, a Caterpillar 980G, was being operated by 45 year old, Aaron Wimpfheimer,\u00a0of Grafton, ND.\u00a0 Wimpfheimer was uninjured.<\/p>\n

When the incident occurred, the payloader was attempting to push start the dump truck.\u00a0 Wimpfheimer approached the dump truck from the rear in the payloader and began to push the dump truck forward.\u00a0 The 65 YOA contractor was walking in front of the dump truck when the payloader began to push the dump truck.\u00a0 The 65\u00a0year old \u00a0contractor was run over by both vehicles.<\/p>\n

The dump truck and payloader were owned by On the Level Construction, Inc. from Grafton, ND.\u00a0 The deceased contractor was employed by this company.\u00a0 On the Level Construction, Inc had been contracted by the City of Jamestown to conduct a cover project at the landfill and were working on this project at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

The identity of the contractor fatally struck will be released pending notification of his next of kin.<\/p>\n

The Jamestown Police Department, Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Jamestown Ambulance Service assisted on scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update… Jamestown Landfill Fatality *Name Release* Jamestown (CSi) On October 27th, 2018 the ND Highway Patrol investigated a workplace incident at the City of Jamestown Landfill that involved a fatality. At 3:22 pm, the Stutsman County Law Enforcement Dispatch Center received a 911 call of a workplace incident at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156658,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156583\/revisions\/156658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}