Severe Workplace Injuries in Newton, Kansas
Employers in Newton reported 14 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through September 2025: 8 workers hospitalized and 6 amputations (43% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 8 of them.
Reports by year
Industries
How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Newton since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 67 inspections at Newton workplaces, and 44 of them (66%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 87 serious, 0 willful and 2 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $353,101.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Aircraft Services Inc. (planned, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $1,277 |
| Full Vision, Inc. (complaint, details) | 2 | $558 |
| Standridge Color Corporation (complaint, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $10,139 |
| Voestalpine Railway Systems Nortrak LLC (complaint, details) | 1 | $2,304 |
| Industrial Metal Fabrication, Inc. (complaint, details) | 4 (3 serious+) | $12,148 |
| Rodolfo Castillo Sanchez (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $7,367 |
| Manufacturing Solutions Inc (planned, details) | 8 (7 serious+) | $8,253 |
| Cm3, Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $7,831 |
| Bunting Magnetics (complaint, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $17,900 |
| Crash Champions, LLC (planned, details) | 5 (4 serious+) | $16,385 |
| Budde Enterprises, Inc (complaint, details) | 9 (7 serious+) | $32,769 |
| Kroger (planned, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $10,824 |
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 14 newest severe injury reports from Newton employers, as OSHA published them.
Sep 24, 2025 · Moving Oz LLC Hospitalized
An employee was moving a piece of furniture up a flight of stairs. At the top of the stairs, he lost his balance and fell backward onto a couch with a metal bracket sticking up out of it. He suffered a laceration to the abdomen and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact · Abdomen · Transportation and warehousing
Jul 2, 2024 · ResCare Community Living - Newton, Kansas Hospitalized
An employee was helping a client into their home from the van which was parked on a steep slope driveway. They were found in the client's driveway unconscious. The client was strapped into their wheelchair which was found on top of the employee. The employee sustained a fracture behind her ear, a hematoma on the right side of her scalp, and a subarachnoid hemorrhage. She was hospitalized.
Event or exposure · Brain · Health care and social assistance
Jun 4, 2024 · Prestressed Concrete Construction, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was stepping onto a flatbed trailer when they missed the step and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a back injury.
Other fall to lower level · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back · Manufacturing
Feb 1, 2024 · Ex Cat Construction, LLC. Hospitalized
An employee was on a step ladder putting sub-fascia on the gable end of a pavilion. The ladder tipped over and the employee fell, hitting their head on a concrete slab. The employee was hospitalized.
Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment · Brain · Construction · OSHA inspection 1726212
Jun 19, 2020 · Kansas Electric Hospitalized
An employee was working to ignite a scrap wood burn pile using gasoline. When the gasoline caught fire there was a large burst of flame and the employee sustained burns to both arms, a portion of the back, their lips, and hair.
Small-scale (limited) fire · Multiple body parts (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1480350
May 5, 2020 · FUTURE FOAM INC. Hospitalized
A temporary employee fell from a board to the ground about 5 feet below. The board was on top of a retracted scissor lift. The employee was hospitalized, having suffered a broken hip that required surgery.
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Hip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1474943
Jan 17, 2020 · Newton Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee slipped on an icy sidewalk while walking into a building. The employee fell to the concrete, suffered a broken left ankle, and was hospitalized.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Ankle(s) · Health care and social assistance
Jun 18, 2018 · Norcraft Companies LP Amputation
An employee was assembling a wooden door when the employee's left index finger was caught in a pinch point, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1325527
Aug 23, 2017 · Full Vision Inc. Amputation
An employee was operating the tube bending machine and amputated the right ring finger half way down the nail.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing
Aug 11, 2017 · LSI Staffing, Inc. Amputation
An employee was taking a scrap piece of foam off a bailer saw and amputated the right ring fingertip. The saw was running at the time of the incident.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Mar 24, 2017 · Full Vision Inc. Amputation
An employee was moving a metal table on wheels next to another metal table when his right hand was smashed between the two. His pinky finger was avulsed and had to be surgically amputated to the knuckle.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1227015
May 18, 2016 · Park Aerospace Technologies Corp. Hospitalized
At 1705, on 05/18/2016, an employee and a coworker were cutting over on a roll of material when the cut edge flap fell over. When the employee grabbed the material, the nip roll caught his hand and arm. He suffered a double fracture to the left ulna and radius, requiring hospitalization.
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects · Forearm(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1149186
Aug 27, 2015 · Norcraft Companies, LP Amputation
An employee amputated the right hand index, middle and ring fingers while running a compound mitre saw.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1089283
Jun 9, 2015 · Voestalpine Nortrak, Inc. Amputation
An employee was on a train car in the yard helping the mobile crane crew unload long pieces of steel from the train car. The employee had just hooked the crane hook to a piece of metal and the operator was tightening the hook when another piece of metal began to fall. The employee jumped down and the steel landed on his right hand, amputating his ring finger and pinky tip.
Struck by falling object or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1070209
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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