Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airport

Firefighters have found a dead woman entangled in machinery in a non-public baggage-processing area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. On Thursday (local time), Larry Langford, a spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department, said firefighters were called to the airport 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. Police said she was 57 years old but have not released her name. The baggage room wasn't publicly accessible, Langford said, and it's not clear how she found her way into it. Scott Allen, a spokesperson for the U.S. 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. Firefighters turned the scene over to police investigators, and Langford had no more details. The Chicago Police Department's communications office said in an email to The Associated Press that the woman was found unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene. Detectives have opened an investigation, the office said.<br/>