A baggage handler at a New Orleans airport died in a freak accident on the job when her hair got tangled in a belt loader.
Jermani Thompson, 26, was unloading a plane at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport around 10 p.m. Tuesday when her hair got trapped in the machinery, an airport spokesperson told Fox 8 Wednesday.
Thompson was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“We are heartbroken and are supporting her family and her friends as best as we are able. Please send your well wishes to everyone at our New Orleans station during this very difficult time,” Mike Hough, the CEO of the CEO of GAT Airline Ground Support, said in a statement.
Thompson was a college basketball player at Hesston College in Kansas and Tougaloo College in Mississippi and once dreamed of the WNBA.
“She was my baby girl. Everybody loved her,” her mother, Angela Dorsey told Nola.com Wednesday. “I’m just lost for words. I can’t even think.”
