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The challenge to a new Boeing plant in North Charleston by a union in Seattle has turned into a political firefight between the foes and partisans of organized labor.

A feud over Boeing’s decision to assemble some of its new 787 jetliners at a new, non-union facility in South Carolina has mushroomed into a very public and highly political fight.

A Kent Fire Department spokesman says Kent police and Boeing officials are investigating the death of a man at the Boeing plant in the south Seattle suburb.

Capt. Kyle Ohashi said the unidentified man died Wednesday in what Ohashi said "appears to be an industrial accident."