---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-304782"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CVR"
cik: "0000019871"
company_name: "CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO"
filed_at: "2022-12-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T04:59:09.286003+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chicago Rivet CEO Walter W. Morrissey dies; President Michael Bourg becomes principal executive officer

## Summary
- Chairman and CEO Walter W. Morrissey passed away on December 10, 2022.
- Michael J. Bourg, President and COO since 2006, appointed principal executive officer effective immediately.
- Bourg will serve as principal executive officer until a new CEO is appointed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-304782
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CVR
- cik: 0000019871
- company_name: CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO
- filed_at: 2022-12-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000119312522304782/0001193125-22-304782-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000119312522304782/d414278d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-304782.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael J. Bourg was appointed as principal executive officer at CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal executive officer
  source text: Michael J. Bourg, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company became the Company’s principal executive officer on December 10, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000119312522304782/0001193125-22-304782-index.htm
- Executive change
  Walter W. Morrissey departed as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO.
  - Action: passed away
  - Role: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Chicago Rivet & Machine Co. (the “Company”) is saddened to announce the passing of Walter W. Morrissey, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, on December 10, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19871/000119312522304782/0001193125-22-304782-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.