Severe Workplace Injuries in Abilene, Kansas
Employers in Abilene reported 11 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through September 2023: 9 workers hospitalized and 4 amputations (36% of reports). Retail accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 3 of them.
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How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Abilene since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 27 inspections at Abilene workplaces, and 17 of them (63%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 27 serious, 0 willful and 0 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $123,083.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Adm Milling Co. (planned, details) | 2 | $25,349 |
| Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. (complaint, details) | 2 | $12,430 |
| Russell Stover Candies (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $14,502 |
| Fox Ceramic Tile Inc (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $1,571 |
| Garcia Masonry LLC (planned, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $3,326 |
| Christian Pena (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $2,217 |
| Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. (referral, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $32,593 |
| Luminous Neon Inc (planned, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $2,535 |
| Brierton Engineering, Inc. (complaint, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $2,535 |
| Brierton Engineering, Inc. (complaint, details) | 6 (5 serious+) | $8,239 |
| Adm Milling Company (referral, details) | 2 | $4,346 |
| Russell Stover Candies, LLC (complaint, details) | 1 | $3,000 |
Penalties as currently recorded by OSHA; they can drop after settlement or contest. Inspection data covers federal OSHA inspections and state-run safety program inspections reported to OSHA.
Most recent reports
The 11 newest severe injury reports from Abilene employers, as OSHA published them.
Sep 6, 2023 · Memorial Health System Hospitalized
An employee was walking down a hallway between two departments when she tripped and fell on the floor fracturing her left greater trochanter (femur).
Fall on same level due to tripping over self · Thigh(s) · Health care and social assistance
Dec 20, 2021 · Russell Stover Hospitalized
An employee had been transporting candy bowls. The employee tripped and fell into a bowl of hot caramel resulting in second degree burns to 5% of their body.
Fall on same level due to tripping · Nonclassifiable · Manufacturing
Nov 29, 2021 · RUSSELL STOVER CANDIES Amputation
An employee was clearing a jam on a line and amputated their right index finger.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1567404
Jan 7, 2021 · Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc Hospitalized
An employee's hand was burned by hot oil in a fryer.
Contact with hot objects or substances · Hand(s) · Retail
Sep 29, 2020 · PetroChoice Holdings, LLC Amputation
An employee was leaving from the rear of a box truck. As he exited the box, the roll-up door dropped and pinched his left ring and middle fingertips against the truck's deck. The fingertips were amputated.
Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle · Fingertip(s) · Wholesale trade
Apr 29, 2020 · Great Plains Manufacturing Amputation
An employee was using a press to bend a piece to a 90-degree angle. When the die came down, the piece did not bend 90 percent as it was supposed to, so the employee lifted the die, held the piece with both hands, and activated the press with the foot pedal. The press die then amputated the employee's thumbs from the middle of the nail to the tip.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Oct 22, 2018 · RUSSELL STOVER CANDIES Hospitalized
An employee was conducting a team lift of a piece of equipment that weighed 135 pounds to put it up on a table for cleaning when the employee strained the lower left abdomen, requiring hospitalization.
Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Retail
May 11, 2017 · GREAT PLAINS MANUFACTURING, INC. Hospitalized
An employee was MIG welding when a spark ignited his shirt. He suffered second and third degree burns to the upper portion of his body, both arms, his neck, and the lower portion of his head. He was hospitalized.
Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1233434
Jan 6, 2017 · Mid Kansas Cooperative Hospitalized
On Friday, January 6, 2017,at 9:30 a.m., an employee was helping a trailer being loaded with fertilizer. As he stepped forward to notify the driver that the trailer was full, he tripped and fell forward, hitting his nose on the step of the semi-trailer. He was hospitalized overnight with a broken nose.
Fall on same level due to tripping · Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Wholesale trade
Oct 11, 2016 · ADM Milling Company Hospitalized
An employee was straightening a hose when he tripped on the screening blower line and fell down, fracturing his right hip.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Hip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1185110
Aug 18, 2015 · RUSSELL STOVER CANDIES Amputation
An employee was dumping a plastic trash cart into a compactor. Her right ring fingertip got stuck between the plastic receptacle and the metal frame around it. She sustained a fingertip amputation.
Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects · Fingertip(s) · Retail
After a workplace injury in Kansas
Most work injuries are handled through workers' compensation, which pays medical bills and part of lost wages whether or not anyone was at fault, and usually rules out suing the employer. A separate claim may be possible against someone else, such as an equipment maker or another company on the site. Reporting deadlines are short, so tell your employer about an injury right away.
Workers compensation lawyers in Kansas
Lawbamba lists 159 workers compensation lawyers with an office in Kansas, the practice area that deals with the workplace injury and OSHA inspection records on this page. These 4 come first in that listing (how the order is set).
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Source: OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, 2015 through November 2025 (loaded November 9, 2026). Employers must report any work-related amputation, loss of an eye or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours. Employer names, addresses and incident descriptions are as OSHA publishes them. A report records an injury, not a finding that the employer broke a rule; OSHA opens an inspection for some reports. The data covers workplaces under federal OSHA. States that run their own OSHA program (such as California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia) are mostly missing, and work-related deaths are reported separately.
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