Man dies after he was trapped, crushed in machine he was working on, cops say

Updated Aug. 1: A 56-year-old Wellington man died Wednesday after being trapped and crushed by a manufacturing machine, officials said.

Emergency crews were called at around 2:34 p.m. to an industrial accident at Youngers and Sons Manufacturing, in the 19000 block of West K-42 southwest of Wichita.

Company officials said in a statement on their website that the man was an outside contractor. He was identified by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday as Zachary C. Ritchey of Wellington.

Ritchey had been working on the machine when he became trapped, Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Tim Myers said in a news release. He was pronounced dead at the scene at about 2:40 p.m. The man was an employee of a company that performs maintenance on machines at Youngers and Sons Manufacturing.

This story was originally published July 31, 2019 at 3:10 PM.