(WFCN)
Chicago — Authorities have identified the lady who died early Thursday morning at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after being caught in machinery and revealed details about her cause of death.
First responders were on the scene at Terminal 5 in the wee hours of the morning. Authorities said that at around 2:30 in the morning on Thursday, surveillance footage revealed a 57-year-old woman accessing a restricted area that was not in use.
The victim, a woman from Waxhaw, North Carolina, was named Virginia Vinton on Friday.
A woman who was not breathing was the subject of a 911 call at about 7:30 in the morning in Chicago. When the woman was involved, fire officials said she became trapped in the baggage conveyor belt system at Terminal 5.
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The authorities at the site declared Vinton dead.
Chicago fire officials informed WGN News, a sister station, that the public was not allowed entry to the baggage handling section.
An industrial accident was initially the reason fire officials gave the alarm. Nonetheless, Vinton was officially declared dead of suicide by the Cook County Medical Examiner on Friday, who revealed that she had died of asphyxiation by hanging.
As to OSHA’s records, Vinton was not employed by the airport.