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An 83-year-old girl has died in South Carolina after falling practically 50 toes right into a properly shaft that was hidden beneath the kitchen flooring in a house exterior of Greenville, a coroner says.
The Oconee County Coroner’s Workplace says Dorothy Louise Downey confirmed up on the property in Salem on Sunday afternoon to assist her daughter “within the means of shifting from the house.”
“An space of the kitchen flooring had weakened with age; the deceased stepped onto the weakened flooring and fell by way of the ground right into a properly shaft, unknown to the household,” the workplace mentioned in a press release. “She fell roughly 48 toes to her dying; there was some water in base of the properly.”
The coroner’s workplace, citing property data, mentioned the house was inbuilt 1920.
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An aerial view of the house in Salem the place the incident occurred, in keeping with the Oconee County Coroner’s Workplace. (Google Maps)
The autumn was reported to have occurred round 2 p.m. Sunday.
Round 5:45 p.m., practically 4 hours later, Downey was faraway from the properly by the Salem Hearth Division and Oconee Emergency Providers, in keeping with the coroner’s workplace.
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A 14-year-old in South Carolina was rescued by firefighters in 2022 after being trapped 40 toes right into a properly. On Sunday, a lady died in Salem after falling right into a properly shaft hidden beneath the kitchen of a house. (Gaffney Metropolis Hearth Division)
An post-mortem carried out Monday on Downey decided that she died from blunt pressure accidents and the way of her dying is unintentional, it added.
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“I’ve not had a dying like this happen in my 31-year profession as Oconee County coroner,” coroner Karl Addis advised WYFF.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox Information Digital.
South Carolina girl, 83, dies after falling into ‘unknown’ properly shaft beneath residence’s kitchen
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