A 23-year-old man died early Friday morning after falling 60 feet from an escalator at the Lincoln Square Complex in downtown Bellevue.

The man, whose name and home town have not been identified, was sitting on the edge of the escalator railing at approximately 1:30 a.m., talking to someone, when he tipped over backwards and fell, said Bellevue police Lt. Marcia Harnden.

“At some point he hopped up on the railing to go down, and at that point he fell,” Harnden said.

The fall appeared to be accidental, and Harnden didn’t believe alcohol was a big factor in the incident.

The man suffered numerous head injuries, and attempts to revive him at the scene failed.

Harnden said this was the first such incident at Lincoln Square since 2006, when a Kirkland man fell down an elevator shaft as he was trying to escape from the stalled elevator.