Woman Declared Dead a Day After Dropping AirPods at Golf Cart Facility, Attempting to Retrieve Them
Posted on AllSides March 16th, 2024
The American flag outside an electric golf cart manufacturer’s facility in Evans, Georgia, flew at half-staff this week in memory of a worker there who died after getting caught in the plant’s machinery. Around 9:40 p.m. on March 8, 21-year-old Alyssa Drinkard dropped her AirPods under a conveyor at the plant and ducked under it in an attempt to retrieve them, according to WRDW-TV. The chain moving the conveyor caught her instead, and efforts by a co-worker to extract Drinkard from the machinery were unavailing. She called maintenance to get...