Our condolences go out to our brother’s family, friends and brothers and sisters in ILA Local 1414.
A longshoreman died Wednesday morning when the vehicle he was loading onto a ship jumped off the ramp and fell into the Savannah River at Georgia Ports’ Ocean Terminal.
Local 1414 President Tommy Stokes III said the accident is still under investigation. He declined to provide the worker’s name pending notification of his extended family.
“The car went in upside-down,” he said. “One of our longshoremen and a stevedore who was working the ship both went into the water almost immediately, but the airbag had deployed and they couldn’t get him out.”