Iola, KS

Employers with the most severe injuries in Iola

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• Russell Stover Chocolates, LLC. IOLA, KANSAS · 2025-07-15 · Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation

  An employee was waiting for product to come down a conveyor belt. The employee's left hand was caught between the belt and a roller under it, and their left hand and arm were pulled into the conveyor. The employee suffered a broken little finger, a broken ulna, and a laceration on the wrist.

• Russell Stover Chocolates, LLC. IOLA, KANSAS · 2024-12-12 · Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing

  An employee was working on a tempering machine to temper chocolate. The employee was clearing material from the pneumatic butterfly valve when their finger was crushed by the valve. The employee sustained an amputation of right middle finger to the first knuckle. The machine was not guarded at the time.

• GATES CORP. IOLA, KANSAS · 2023-11-27 · Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment

  An employee was fabricating a braided rubber hose. They pulled on a reel to get more material. When the reel moved, it turned on a groove in the concrete floor and impacted a tray. The employee's right hand was then pinned between the reel and the edge of the metal tape dispenser on the tray, resulting in a partial amputation of the middle finger.

• GATES CORP. IOLA, KANSAS · 2023-03-22 · Fall on same level due to slipping

  An employee slipped while sweeping a damp oily floor. He fell to the concrete and suffered a broken left hip.

• GATES CORP. IOLA, KANSAS · 2022-10-19 · Other fall to lower level, unspecified

  An employee was assembling orders while driving a forklift. While she was placing parts on a pallet, she turned around and fell backward and horizontally approximately 6 feet and struck her head on the lower level of the shelving rack. The employee sustained a fractured elbow, lacerations to the head, and brain bleeding.

• GATES CORP. IOLA, KANSAS · 2019-03-26 · Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation

  An operator was working at the north end of a strip table with another operator at the south end of the table at a nylon unwrapper. The operator was trying to keep the 3/8" pole on the rollers to help the pole spin as the nylon was being removed from the pole. The end of the pole got caught in a roller and the operator's hand got tangled together with the pole. When the operator pulled his hand out of the entanglement, his right middle fingertip was amputated. The finger was also broken below the amputation point.

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