A 22-year-old longshoreman died Wednesday after he fell about 40 to 45 feet into the cargo hold of a ship berthed at the Louisiana Avenue Wharf along the Mississippi River in New Orleans.
The apparent industrial accident occurred about 6 p.m.
The body of Samuel Montgomery II was removed from the site shortly after 7 p.m., said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office. Montgomery lived in eastern New Orleans.