Hilton Head incidents kill two laborers in one week
A 21-year-old landscaper died Thursday when he was run over by a forklift on Hilton Head Island in Bluffton, S.C., according to the Beaufort County (S.C.) Coroner's Office. The accident was the second workplace fatality in Bluffton this week involving a Mexican-born laborer.
It was the third such incident in southern Beaufort County in the past six months and comes at a time when the state labor board is pushing safety measures on the job.