Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airport

Todd Richmond, Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Firefighters recovered a dormant female entangled successful machinery Thursday successful a non-public baggage-processing area astatine O’Hare International Airport successful Chicago.

Larry Langford, a spokesperson for nan Chicago Fire Department, said firefighters were called to nan airdrome astir 7:45 a.m. for a study of a personification pinned successful machinery utilized to move baggage. He said they discovered nan female entangled successful a conveyer loop strategy successful a baggage room.

Police said she was 57 years aged but person not released her name.

The baggage room wasn’t publically accessible, Langford said, and it’s not clear really she recovered her measurement into it. Scott Allen, a spokesperson for nan U.S. Department of Labor, said an charismatic pinch nan Occupational Health and Safety Administration visited nan segment and learned nan female was not an airdrome employee.

Firefighters turned nan segment complete to constabulary investigators, and Langford had nary much details. The Chicago Police Department’s communications agency said successful an email to The Associated Press that nan female was recovered unresponsive and pronounced dormant connected nan scene. Detectives person opened an investigation, nan agency said.

The constabulary communications agency initially said nan female was discovered astatine 2:27 a.m., creating disorder astir why firefighters and paramedics didn’t get for much than 5 hours. After checking pinch nan constabulary section astir nan timing, Langford said that he was told surveillance footage shows nan female stepping successful nan baggage room astatine 2:27 a.m.

The communications agency issued a 2nd connection Thursday day saying that surveillance video shows nan female entering nan room astatine 2:27 a.m. She was really discovered astatine 7:30 a.m., prompting a 911 call.

The footage only shows her stepping and does not show what happened to her.

Police spokesperson Nathaniel Blackman clarified during a telephone question and reply pinch The Associated Press that nary 1 was watching nan surveillance cameras successful existent clip and investigators reviewed nan footage aft nan woman’s assemblage was discovered.