A 41-year-old father of seven died Thursday after falling from scaffolding at a construction site at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School.
Jonathan “J.D.” Dillard was reportedly working on infrastructure renovations when he slipped from a 40-foot-high scaffold and fell to the concrete surface below. He was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and later pronounced dead.
The Sacramento City Unified School District expressed condolences to Dillard’s family and confirmed that the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the incident.A GoFundMe campaign has been created to assist his family with funeral and living expenses.
