{"id":421467,"date":"2026-08-02T05:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T05:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421467\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T05:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T05:56:42","slug":"family-of-john-brandon-lacayanga-who-was-killed-while-towing-cargo-pallet-at-sfo-files-lawsuit-against-county-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421467\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of John Brandon Lacayanga, who was killed while towing cargo pallet at SFO, files lawsuit against county, employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; The family of a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/san-francisco-international-airport-employee-john-lacayanga-dies-towing-cargo-pallet\/18433945\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">man killed while working at San Francisco International Airport back in January<\/a> is now reportedly suing the city and county of San Francisco and his employer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Twenty-eight-year-old John Brandon Lacayanga was working for the Dubai National Air Travel Agency at SFO when he was crushed by a cargo pallet he was towing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/parents-remember-san-francisco-international-airport-worker-john-lacayanga-child-died-towing-cargo-pallet\/18441134\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parents remember SFO worker, their only child, who died on the job towing cargo pallet<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/san-francisco-airport-wrongful-death-lawsuit-22369558.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, the new lawsuit alleges his death was &#8220;not a freak accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His family claims San Francisco has failed to maintain airport roadways and that his employer assigned him inadequate and unsafe equipment.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Now Streaming 24\/7 Click Here\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/11518842_247-NOWSTREAMING_1280x720.png\"\/><\/a><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; The family of a man killed while working at San Francisco International Airport back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[168327,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-421467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-168327","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}