Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airport
Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airport
Police are investigating how a woman died in a baggage room at O'Hare International Airport. Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford said emergency responders called to the airport around 7:45 a.m.
Firefighters found a dead woman entangled in machinery Thursday in a non-public baggage-processing area at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.
Larry Langford, a spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department, said firefighters were called to the airport around 7:45 a.m. for a report of a person pinned in machinery used to move baggage. He said they discovered the woman entangled in a conveyer 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 Labor, said an official with the Occupational Health and Safety Administration visited the scene and learned the woman was not an airport employee.
How the fuck do people think that it's okay to climb into heavy machinery?
Looks like at some of their claims have the "door" for the bags that is plenty big enough for a person to crawl through. If that's what happened, I honestly don't know how you make a system that physically protects against it while still being flexible enough to handle any piece of luggage that will fit.
At what point do we just acknowledge natural selection and stop bending over backwards for people like this?
"I'll bet my luggage is just stuck - if I crawl inside this thing I'll bet I can find it." grind whack fold rend cush
Looks like die hard 2 is getting a sequel.
Stay out of the Back Rooms
There is no sex in the back rooms
Very mysterious. I wonder if she knew what the baggage room was for, or if she just wandered in there. Hoping we'll find out more details.
My guess is she had a location tag on her lost luggage and decided to go looking for it herself.
Certainly plausible and if true then it should be a lesson: the Airtag is for shaming the airline, not climbing into industrial-scale machinery.
Darwinism wins again.
She was 57 so whatever contributions she was going to make to the gene pool have already been made.
All you people reveling in this poor woman's death are going to feel SO DUMB when you find out it was machine gremlins.
Lol