Georgia woman, 21, is dragged in to a factory conveyor to her death while reaching down to recover AirPod she dropped during shift at Club Car plant

A Grovetown woman was crushed to death while reaching down to pick up an AirPod, after being dragged into a conveyor during a shift at a Club Car plant.

Alyssa Drinkard, 21, was working at the factory in Evans, Georgia, on March 8, before tragedy struck at around 9:45pm, Columbia County Sheriff's Office said.

According to an incident report, a horrified witness, Fae'Zsha Smith, told investigators that the line worker dropped the Apple earbud below the conveyor before attempting to rescue it from under the active machine.

Surveillance footage obtained by authorities show Drinkard crawling underneath the conveyor belt in an attempt to retrieve her lost device.

As she reached for it, her arm was pulled into the conveyor by a chain that moves the machine and she was left trapped.

Alyssa Drinkard, 21, was working a shift at a Club Car plant in Evans, Georgia, before she was pulled into a moving conveyor 

The line worker died as a result of her injuries, after her arm was caught in a chain that caused the machine to move

Smith 'was not able to get her out, so she called for maintenance to come and shut the machine down. 

'They began taking it apart once the machine was down and called 911', the report states.

Emergency services personnel freed the worker from the jaws of the machine 'by cutting the metal frame from around the conveyor and pulling her out'.

According to local reports, Drinkard still had a pulse when she was rescued and emergency workers dashed to perform life-saving measures on her before she was hospitalized at nearby Doctors Hospital.

The worker died the following morning at around 5:50am due to the extent of her injuries, the sheriff's office said.

The plant is used by Club Car, which makes golf carts and other vehicles.   

In a statement to The Augusta Press, the company confirmed a worker on Friday night sustained critical injuries at its manufacturing facility in Evans before dying.

The 21-year-old had crawled beneath the machine to retrieve her AirPod before tragedy struck

'First responders were immediately notified, and we thank them for their quick response to provide medical care and transportation to the hospital where the worker unfortunately later passed away,' the company said. 

'Our sincere condolences and thoughts are with the family, friends and all impacted by this loss. 

'We are working with authorities and the contractor in an investigation to determine the facts about what led to the incident.'

Drinkard's co-workers have expressed their shock about the tragedy, saying she had been working her second-shift in the President Line area that deals with carts' battery cells. 

Smith, 25, said Wednesday that she has not been able to shake the images of Drinkard lodged under the machine.

It comes after a food factory worker, 37, was strangled unconscious on a carrot baton machine when his hood jacket got tangled in the roller in November last year.

Remigiusz Cyrek was left seriously injured after being dragged into the machine while he was carrying out a deep clean on the specialist machinery.

And a 31-year-old factory worker in Australia suffered grisly injuries after getting caught in a conveyor belt for an hour in October 2020.

The staffer at Outback Pie Company in Townsville was left with multiple fractures to his left arm after getting it caught around a tension roller.