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A United States Postal Service employee has died after a fatal work-related incident

Nicholas John Acker, 36, of Trenton, N.J., reportedly became trapped in a conveyor belt at a distribution facility in Allen Park, Mich.

He was reportedly dead for at least six hours before his body was found

A United States Postal Service employee died over the weekend after becoming trapped in a conveyor belt system at a local mail distribution center in Michigan.

“The United States Postal Service is deeply saddened by the loss of our employee at the Detroit Network Distribution Center (NDC) in Allen Park, MI. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. The NDC is fully operational, at this time,” a spokesperson for USPS tells PEOPLE on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

The victim has been identified

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