A dockworker died Monday afternoon at the Port of Los Angeles after a utility tractor rig fell into the water, authorities said.
The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. Los Angeles Fire Department rescue divers tried to save the dockworker from the 60-foot-deep, murky water near Berth 227.
"Man sadly proved beyond help and has been declared dead," Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey wrote in a statement.
Humphrey described the utility tractor rig as a semi-enclosed cab used to pull cargo trailers around the freight terminal. The rig and the cargo went into the water.
Several agencies were investigating the crash.
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