{"id":244464,"date":"2026-04-24T08:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244464\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:46:25","slug":"hotel-employee-found-dead-under-industrial-dryer-in-orlando-tourist-district-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244464\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel employee found dead under industrial dryer in Orlando tourist district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A hotel employee was found dead under an industrial dryer at a Hilton near Orlando\u2019s tourist district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies responded around 9 p.m. to reports of a man in his 30s pinned under the equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are still investigating how he became trapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Authorities are investigating the death of a hotel employee who was found trapped beneath an industrial dryer at a Hilton property near Orlando\u2019s tourist district.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies responded around 9 p.m. to the hotel on Destination Parkway, just minutes from the Orange County Convention Center, after reports of a man in his 30s pinned under the equipment. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said the victim was an employee of the hotel, but it remains unclear how he became trapped under the dryer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#039;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#8217;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police activity had largely cleared late Tuesday, though investigators continue working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story was written based on information shared by the Orlando Fire Department and Orlando Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A hotel employee was found dead under an industrial dryer at a Hilton near Orlando\u2019s tourist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[107699,107698,139,141,140,107700],"class_list":["post-244464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-hotel-employee","tag-industrial-dryer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-tourist-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}