Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airport
- The body was discovered in a room not accessible to the public, and the woman was not an airport employee
Firefighters found a dead woman entangled in machinery in a non-public baggage-processing area at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Thursday.
Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department, said firefighters were called to the airport at around 7.45am for a report of a person pinned in machinery used to move baggage.
He said they discovered the woman entangled in a conveyor belt system in a baggage room. The room was not publicly accessible, Langford said.
Police said she was 57 years old but have not released her name.
Scott Allen, a spokesman for the US Department of Labour, said an official with the Occupational Health and Safety Administration visited the scene and learned the woman was not an airport employee. It is not clear how she found her way into the baggage room.
Firefighters turned the scene over to police investigators, and Langford had no more details.