Employee Committed Suicide At Kent Boeing Plant

A man who died at the Kent Boeing Aerospace plant on Wednesday killed himself, the King County Medical Examiner said.

The 50-year-old man died as a result of a piece of machinery at a building in the 20400 block of 68th Avenue South, said Kyle Ohashi of the Kent Fire Department.

He was authorized to be in the area and use the machinery where the incident took place.

Police and medics were called to the scene around 2 p.m. Wednesday.