South Carolina boatyard worker dies after falling up to 100 feet into ship’s smokestack.

A man in South Carolina was killed after falling from a height of 100 feet to the bottom of a ship’s smokestack while working, officials said. The unnamed 63-year-old man was working while standing on a small platform inside the smokestack. But the platform gave way and the man fell to the bottom of the structure on Sunday, said North Charleston’s police department. The workers lost sight of the man after he fell to the bottom of the ship but maintained audible contact with him till, he became unresponsive, […]