Pest control worker who fell to his death identified
City News Service, Updated at 12:27PM, April 2, 2017
ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- A pest-control worker who died in a job-site accident in a residential North County neighborhood was identified Saturday by the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office as a 66-year-old Guatay man.
Jack Rafael Ruiz was found by a co-worker lying unconscious on the ground with a bleeding head wound outside a home in the 1400 block of Oak Hill Drive in Escondido on Thursday afternoon.
Medics tried in vain to revive Ruiz before pronouncing him dead at the scene.
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The co-worker said the accident happened while he was away from the job site for about two hours before he returned at about 2 p.m.
That's when he found Ruiz unresponsive, lying on the back patio. The co-worker said it appeared that Ruiz had fallen about 10 feet to the ground.
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ESCONDIDO, Calif. – A man died in a jobsite accident when he fell from a second-story balcony in a residential North County neighborhood Thursday afternoon, police said.
The victim's partner found the man who is in his 60s lying unconscious on the ground outside a home in the 1400 block of Oak Hill Drive in Escondido shortly after 1:30 p.m., according to police.
Medics tried in vain to revive him before pronouncing him dead at the scene. The man's name was withheld pending family notification.
The co-worker, who did not witness the accident, said the victim appeared to have fallen about 10 feet off of a patio, Sgt. Fred Cheatham said.
