SEDGWICK COUNTY —Authorities have identified a 56-year-old man who died after becoming trapped in machinery at a manufacturing business as Zachary C. Ritchey of Wellington, Kansas, according Lt. Tim Myers with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s office.

Emergency crews were called Wednesday to Younger & Sons Manufacturing north of Viola.

Ritchey was trapped in a tooling machine he was working on. The Sedgwick County Fire Department and other company employees were able to reverse the machine. Ritchey pronounced dead at the scene.

It is currently unclear how the man became trapped.

Ritchey worked for a company that performs maintenance on machines at  the company.U