{"id":38012,"date":"2021-05-12T07:17:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=38012"},"modified":"2021-05-12T07:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:18:21","slug":"county-being-sued-in-death-of-westfield-man-at-the-county-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/county-being-sued-in-death-of-westfield-man-at-the-county-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"County Being Sued in Death of Westfield Man at the County Landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38013\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/county-being-sued-in-death-of-westfield-man-at-the-county-landfill\/a-gavel-and-a-name-plate-with-the-engraving-lawsuit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lawsuit-legal-gavel-name-plate.jpg?fit=700%2C455&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,455\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;(Zerbor | Bigstock.com)&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;A gavel and a name plate with the engraving Lawsuit&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Bigstock&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A gavel and a name plate with the engraving Lawsuit&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lawsuit-legal-gavel-name-plate.jpg?fit=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lawsuit-legal-gavel-name-plate.jpg?fit=700%2C455&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38013\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lawsuit-legal-gavel-name-plate.jpg?resize=375%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lawsuit-legal-gavel-name-plate.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lawsuit-legal-gavel-name-plate.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The family of a Westfield man killed in an accident at the <strong>Chautauqua County Landfill<\/strong> is suing the County.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed in <strong>Chautauqua County State Supreme Court<\/strong> Monday seeks financial damages following the death of 56-year old <strong>Scott Deming Sr.<\/strong> on August 3, 2020, saying the county was negligent in ensuring the landfill was a safe place to work and was not in compliance with safety law.<\/p>\n<p>Deming was standing behind a large pile of garbage he had just dumped from his garbage truck at the Landfill in Ellery when he was hit and killed by a bulldozer that was pushing the garbage into a pit.<\/p>\n<p>Chautauqua County, the <strong>County Department of Public Facilities<\/strong>, and the Chautauqua County Landfill are all named in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a Westfield man killed in an accident at the Chautauqua County Landfill is suing the County. The lawsuit filed in Chautauqua County State Supreme Court Monday seeks financial damages following the death of 56-year old Scott Deming Sr. on August 3, 2020, saying the county was negligent in ensuring the landfill was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[405,6316,10416,9253],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lawsuit-legal-gavel-name-plate.jpg?fit=700%2C455&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-9T6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17184,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/ellery-takes-county-to-court-over-landfill-expansion\/","url_meta":{"origin":38012,"position":0},"title":"Ellery Takes County to Court over Landfill Expansion","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"MAYVILLE - The town of Ellery has filed a lawsuit against the county to try and stop its effort to develop a new cell at the county landfill. 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