An employee lost her life at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. This happened after her hair got caught on the belt loader. "She said, 'Mom I'm on my way to work,' and I said 'Okay I'll see you when you get home,'" said Angela Dorsey, who is mourning the death of her daughter, Jermani Thompson. Thompson played basketball. She always seemed to have a basketball in her hands. "She was a basketball guru, she loved basketball, that was her thing," Dorset revealed. The news traveled quickly. It began to circulate that night, that the 26-year-old had been fatally injured in an industrial accident. "The doctor said that her hair got stuck in the conveyer and they tried, they say they tried to cut her hair but they couldn't," Dorsey said.

"She died on her way to the hospital." She was employed through GAT airline ground support. She was unloading baggage from a Frontier Airlines flight. This happened at or around 10:20 p.m. Not too much later, her mother received the call. "I just dropped the phone and was screaming and hollering," The mom said. Mike Hough, who is the CEO of GAT, said that Thompson's hair apparently became entangled in the machinery of the belt loader. A coworker who didn’t want to be identified, explained about what he saw. "We're sitting there and we see her hair ... I can't get that image out of my head," he described. "People just can't stop crying about it, we worked long hours with her every day -- it just doesn't seem real." Watch Video Below