Severe Workplace Injuries in Junction City, Kansas
Employers in Junction City reported 15 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through September 2025: 12 workers hospitalized and 5 amputations (33% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 11 of them.
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How workers were hurt
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OSHA inspections in Junction City since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 38 inspections at Junction City workplaces, and 18 of them (47%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 43 serious, 0 willful and 0 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $208,628.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| New Horizons Rv Corp (planned, details) | 4 (3 serious+) | $10,923 |
| Stanfield Roofing, Inc. (referral, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $9,930 |
| C & K Construction And Service (complaint, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $6,569 |
| Gwaltney LLC (referral, details) | 2 | $13,212 |
| B.I. Brooks & Sons, Inc. (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 5 (4 serious+) | $13,827 |
| Ck Enterprises, Inc (complaint, details) | 4 | $23,439 |
| Foot Locker, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 | $6,215 |
| Michelin/Camso (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $8,136 |
| Ventria Bioscience (complaint, details) | 8 (7 serious+) | $20,275 |
| Dollar Tree (complaint, details) | 7 (7 serious+) | $60,854 |
| Valley Metals (referral, details) | 8 (8 serious+) | $4,800 |
| Kansas 4-H Foundation, Inc (complaint, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $6,984 |
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 15 newest severe injury reports from Junction City employers, as OSHA published them.
Sep 4, 2025 · Stanfield Roofing, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was caulking a termination bar on a parapet wall that was approximately 4 feet high. He fell from the roof and landed on the ground approximately 20-25 feet below. The employee sustained injuries to his head, spine, pelvis, and lower leg.
Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1849316
Jun 25, 2025 · Smithfield Packaged Meat Corporation Amputation
An employee was working to clear plastic film from a packaging machine when she came in contact with a chain, resulting in an amputation to her middle fingertip.
Struck by running powered equipment · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1834449
Oct 18, 2024 · C K Enterprises Amputation
An employee was closing the door of a cardboard compactor. As he was pulling the door down with his left hand, it closed on his right hand, resulting in a soft tissue amputation through part of the fingernail of his ring fingertip.
Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing
Oct 1, 2024 · Gwaltney LLC Hospitalized
Three employees were moving a piece of sheet metal approximately 20 feet to the top of the roof. When they got to the top of the roof, the injured employee stepped on the sheet metal causing them to slide across the sheet metal approximately 25 feet to the edge of the roof and fall 16 feet to the ground, landing in a standing position. The employee was hospitalized.
Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Part of body · Construction · OSHA inspection 1779311
May 4, 2023 · Foot Locker Corporate Services Center Hospitalized
A maintenance technician was assessing damage to an overhead door that had been hit by an exiting truck. The metal pole of the roll up door fell onto the maintenance technician's head, causing head trauma.
Struck by falling object or equipment · Brain · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1672021
Apr 10, 2023 · Foot Locker Corporate Services Center Amputation
An employee was inspecting a conveyor chain and sprocket. The employee went to turn the motor off when the chain caught his rag and pulled his finger into the nip point between the chain and sprocket. The employee sustained a left index fingertip amputation.
Caught in running equipment or machinery (other) · Fingertip(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1665400
Dec 30, 2022 · Smithfield Foods Amputation
An employee was clearing a jam of packaging material on a packaging machine. The crosscut blades inside the machine activated and contacted his left hand, causing partial amputations to his thumb and index finger.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1642439
Sep 8, 2019 · C K Enterprises Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was walking from the pack floor to the stuff floor to run a hose through a location so that he could perform a cleaning duty. While he was walking over the clean-in-place (CIP) tank, the grating broke and he fell in. His left leg was burned. The CIP process was being run at the time, so it contained hot water and chemicals.
Fall through surface or existing opening · Leg(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 31, 2019 · Valley Metals Hospitalized
An employee was working on a combine truck trying to get a part loose. The employee was using a blow torch when it exploded. The employee was hospitalized with severe burns, especially on the right leg, and smoke inhalation.
Explosion (other) · Leg(s) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1419924
Jun 26, 2018 · Smithfield Foods Hospitalized
An employee was taping liner on a combo when he tripped over the corner of a pallet and fractured his tibia.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Lower leg(s) · Manufacturing
Sep 6, 2017 · O'Reilly Auto Enterprises LLC. Hospitalized
An employee exited a vehicle to speak with a customer and then noticed the vehicle was moving. While attempting to get back into the vehicle, the employee was struck by the door and then run over by the vehicle, suffering tissue damage to the right leg. The employee was hospitalized overnight and had surgery.
Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle · Leg(s) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1263512
May 18, 2017 · UPU Industries, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee participated in a two-person lift of a core pole that weighs approximately 100 lbs. at a loom machine. The employee suffered an incarcerated umbilical hernia that required surgery.
Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Manufacturing
Jul 18, 2016 · Foot Locker, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was operating a forklift when their foot became caught between the forklift and an I-beam. The operator's foot was broken.
Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Foot (feet) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1165174
Jul 20, 2015 · Hamm Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was helping a coworker replace struts. They were lining up pins when the supportive strap broke. The truck cab fell and crushed the employee's left hand, resulting in hospitalization.
Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached · Hand(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1079414
Mar 5, 2015 · Smithfield Farmland Corp. Amputation
An employee partially amputated his left-hand middle finger when his hand got caught between the forklift he was operating and a vat dumper safety bar.
Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1044877
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
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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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