Emporia, KS

Employers with the most severe injuries in Emporia

Example incidents

• Hostess Brands, LLC EMPORIA, KANSAS · 2025-07-08 · Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation

  An employee was operating a donut wrapper machine. There was a small gap between the wrapper framework, fixed factory guard, and motor housing. His fingers went into the gap and came into contact with the chain and gear assembly. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated without bone loss.

• DaVita, Inc. EMPORIA, KANSAS · 2025-02-04 · Struck by door, gate, window

  An employee was carrying a box to a car. The car's trunk door struck the employee's glasses and eye, causing a corneal laceration.

• Simmons Pet Food, Inc. EMPORIA, KANSAS · 2024-08-02 · Contact incidents unspecified

  An employee was performing maintenance on a machine that was locked out and de-energized. The machinery piece being removed and replaced crushed the employee's fingers resulting in partial amputations of the right ring and middle fingers.

• Evergy EMPORIA, KANSAS · 2024-06-28 · Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning

  Employees were setting a pole along a county road to replace a storm-damaged pole. They were positioning the new pole in the hole and were canting the new pole using the pole chain. The pole shifted and dropped in the hole, causing the chain to roll over an employee's right index finger. The chain caught their finger against the pole and resulted in a fingertip amputation without bone loss.

• Norfolk Iron and Metal EMPORIA, KANSAS · 2023-11-12 · Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker

  At the tube blazer machine area, an employee was repositioning a piece of 24-foot metal tube material. The employee was using a metal bar to push against the tube when the metal bar slipped off the tube and struck the right side of their jaw. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured jaw.

• Michelin North America, Inc. EMPORIA, KANSAS · 2023-04-06 · Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle

  An employee was putting crushed 55 gallon drums in a dumpster into a recycle trailer using a forklift. The dumpster was raised about 5.5 feet off the ground on the forks of the forklift. As the dumpster rolled forward, their left index finger was pinched between the dumpster frame and the forklift fork and the fingertip was amputated.

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Source: federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports, inspections, and ITA Form 300/301 filings. Counts reflect federal jurisdiction only.