{"id":106717,"date":"2024-08-09T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-dies-after-getting-caught-in-baggage-carousel-at-chicago-ohare\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:03:23","slug":"woman-dies-after-getting-caught-in-baggage-carousel-at-chicago-ohare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-dies-after-getting-caught-in-baggage-carousel-at-chicago-ohare\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after getting caught in baggage carousel at Chicago O&#8217;Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-08\/GettyImages_OHare_080824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Scott Olson\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(CHICAGO) &#8212; A woman died Thursday morning at Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport after getting caught in a baggage carousel, officials told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who has not yet been publicly identified, was 57, according to the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was a member of the public and not a worker at the airport, according to a spokesperson for the Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders were called to Terminal 5 at about 7:45 a.m. Thursday following reports of a woman &#8220;pinned in machinery,&#8221; the Chicago Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving to the scene, they found the woman &#8220;entangled in the conveyer belt system used to move baggage,&#8221; fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics pronounced the woman dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said surveillance footage of the area showed the woman &#8220;entering an unoccupied restricted area at 2:27 a.m.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was discovered at approximately 7:30 a.m., police said, and emergency responders were called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The area has been declared a crime scene, and the Chicago Police Department is investigating.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Ayesha Ali contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Olson\/Getty Images (CHICAGO) &#8212; A woman died Thursday morning at Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport after getting caught in a baggage carousel, officials told ABC News. The woman, who has not yet been publicly identified, was 57, according to the Chicago Police Department. The woman was a member of the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-dies-after-getting-caught-in-baggage-carousel-at-chicago-ohare\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}