USPS worker found dead inside mailing machine in Michigan: 'Deeply saddened by the loss'

A U.S. Postal Service worker died aft helium became stuck wrong a message handling instrumentality astatine a organisation halfway successful Allen Park, Michigan, according to officials.

Nicholas John Acker, 36, was stuck successful the instrumentality astatine the USPS Detroit Network Distribution Center for respective hours earlier helium was recovered dormant connected Saturday, officials told WDIV. The antheral was a attraction worker.

Firefighters responded to the installation to analyse aft the man's fiancé reported that helium had returned location aft his shift, according to the outlet. The pistillate said she went to the installation and stood extracurricular for hours earlier she alerted authorities.

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A U.S. Postal Service worker died aft helium became stuck wrong a message handling instrumentality astatine a organisation halfway successful Allen Park, Michigan. (Spencer Jones/GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The antheral had been dormant for six to 8 hours earlier the firefighters arrived astatine the facility, according to officials.

"We privation to cognize what happened and however agelong helium was there," the man's fiancée, Stephanie Jaszcz, told WDIV. "That’s what we privation to know. We privation to cognize however helium adjacent ended up determination and wherefore doesn’t anybody cognize wherever helium was at?"

Mail handling machines are utilized to benignant and measurement message and tin scope successful sizes. The installation wherever the antheral was recovered dormant has galore ample machines, according to WDIV.

The antheral had been dormant for six to 8 hours earlier the firefighters arrived astatine the facility. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Police described the man’s decease arsenic "accidental." The circumstances surrounding however helium became stuck successful the instrumentality stay unclear, and authorities proceed to investigate.

"The United States Postal Service is profoundly saddened by the nonaccomplishment of our worker astatine the Detroit Network Distribution Center (NDC) successful Allen Park, MI," USPS said successful a connection to WDIV.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. The NDC is afloat operational astatine this time," the connection continued.

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Police described the man’s decease arsenic "accidental." (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Jaszcz criticized the USPS connection for failing to notation her fiancée's sanction and for stating that message operations volition continue.

"'The mail’s inactive moving?' Gross," Jaszcz said. "'Sorry astir the loss, but the mail’s inactive moving.' They couldn’t adjacent accidental his sanction oregon admit that helium was an Air Force veteran. A antheral gone. A veteran. A husband. A quality being. And each you tin deliberation of is message keeps moving? Inhumane. It’s gross."