CHICAGO — Police have opened a death investigation after a woman was discovered dead at a terminal early Thursday morning at O’Hare International Airport.
The Chicago Fire Department was called out to Terminal 5 at O’Hare Airport for a report of a woman pinned in machinery around 7:45 a.m., according to department spokesman Larry Langford.
When firefighters arrived they found the woman, approximately 40 years old, entangled in the conveyor belt system used to move baggage in terminal 5. Paramedics confirmed the woman was deceased at the scene, Langford said.
The woman, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, was not an airport worker, according to Scott Allen, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Labor, who added that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t have jurisdiction in the investigation.
A source said that the woman was a member of the public, but it remained unclear how the accident occurred. The area was declared a crime scene and the incident was handed over to Chicago police, Langford said.
Detectives were conducting a death investigation pending autopsy results.
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