Employee crushed to death in horror industrial accident after press machine unexpectedly turns on

Employee crushed to death in horror industrial accident after press machine unexpectedly turns on

Gregory Knopf, 61, was pronounced dead at hospital after being trapped at Ford's Sharonville plant in Ohio

A Ford employee is dead after being trapped and crushed by a malfunctioning industrial machine at the Ford Sharonville Transmission Plant in Sharonville, Ohio, on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Phil Didion/The Enquirer/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

The worker, identified as 61-year-old Gregory Knopf, was pinned by a press machine that was undergoing routine maintenance when it malfunctioned. (Phil Didion/The Enquirer/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

The Ford Transmission Plant in Sharonville, Ohio, builds roughly 3,500 transmissions a day with over 2,000 employees under a 2.4 million-square-foot roof. (Phil Didion/The Enquirer/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)