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FAIRFIELD, Ohio — Officials in southwest Ohio say a 53-year-old man performing maintenance work at a bowling alley became trapped in the pin-setting machinery and died.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the worker at Northwest Lanes bowling alley in Fairfield died when his clothes became tangled.

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WCPO Cincinnati identified the man as David Geiger.

“He was sent back for a problem with one of the lanes,” Fairfield Police Department’s information officer Doug Day told the ABC affiliate. “He’d been back there, they tried to call him, and when he didn’t answer the call they went back there and they found him.

Police say it wasn’t clear if the man had been strangled or crushed by the machinery.

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports the Butler County Coroner had been called to the scene on reports the man had suffered major trauma.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration sent an investigator. Agency officials said they haven’t had any previous investigations at the bowling alley, which has been in operation since 1976.