NORTH KINGSTOWN — Ritchie A. Morse, 31, of North Kingstown, has been identified by the police as the man who died in an accident at Electric Boat’s Quonset Point plant Wednesday morning.

A group of people who had gathered Thursday evening at a house owned by his parents on King Phillip Drive said the family had no comment.

Morse had worked at Electric Boat for 10 years, police Capt. Thomas J. Mulligan said. The investigation is continuing, Mulligan said, but a preliminary review indicates that Morse had been operating a transport vehicle to move a section of steel through one of the large sliding doors on a three-bay building at Roger Williams Way and Casey Avenue.

“[Morse] exited from the machinery and became trapped between it and the large door as it was being closed,” Mulligan said in a news release.

Deputy Fire Chief Walter Burrows said the call came in at 7:29 a.m. Wednesday. When rescue workers arrived, Burrows said, Electric Boat’s emergency response team was already treating Morse. Burrows said they continued to administer aid while Morse was taken to Kent Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

General Dynamics Electric Boat spokesman Robert A. Hamilton said counselors were sent to the site on Wednesday. He said on Thursday that the scene had been secured for investigators. The company is investigating, he said, as are the North Kingstown police and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Electric Boat builds submarines in several gated areas of the industrial park at Quonset Point. Workers in the building known as 2003 must enter through a guarded gate, and the surrounding fences bear signs warning that the facility is a defense plant and photographs are prohibited.

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