OSHA has inspected Future Foam, Inc. 14 times in Wisconsin since 1985.
The latest one began on Oct 25, 2024 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Middleton.
Those inspections ended with 46 citation items: 34 serious, 2 repeat and 10 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $184,806 and now stand at $88,713, 52% lower after settlements or reviews.
Methylene chloride comes up most often in these citations: 8 items under 1910.1052.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Future Foam, Inc. averages $6,844 (3 cited inspections).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Future Foam, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Inspection 347843831 OPENED OCT 25, 2024Closed
Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 45 employees at the site · Closed Jan 7, 2025
8430 Murphy Dr., Middleton, WI 53562 · Urethane and Other Foam Product (except Polystyrene) Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Oct 24, 2024 (fatal): Employee falls to floor due to heart attack, later dies
On October 17, 2024, an employee working for a foam products manufacturer was stacking foam mattresses from a portable ladder platform. The ladder platform was approximately 41 inches in height. The employee fell backwards off the platform due to a medical event. It was later determined that the employee had a heart attack. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury from impact with the concrete floor. On At 7:13 p.m. on October 24, 2024, the employee died due to blunt force trauma to the head.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 345703524 OPENED DEC 28, 2021Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 70 employees at the site · Closed Mar 10, 2022
8430 Murphy Dr., Middleton, WI 53562 · Urethane and Other Foam Product (except Polystyrene) Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Dec 16, 2021: Employee's hand is crushed in machine rollers
At 8:00 a.m. on December 16, 2021, an employee, a pour line operator, was operating a pouring machine at a polyurethane carpet pad manufacturer and was starting up the prime comfort pour line. The employee entered an area of the pour deck near rollers, which were not guarded by barriers or other machine guarding, to visually inspect the rollers. While inspecting the rollers, the employee's left hand was caught in and crushed between two moving rollers. The employee was hospitalized to treat crushing injuries to his left hand and fingers and partial degloving.
| Citation and rule | Type | Proposed | Current | Issued | Status |
|---|
| Citation 1, item 1 |
Serious | $11,396 | $11,396 | Jan 28, 2022 | Final |
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Middleton site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 89 workers: 3.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 4 days away from work.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Dec 16, 2021, Middleton: Hospitalization · avulsions, enucleations · hand(s), unspecified
An employee was trying to adjust something in a machine when the machine pulled him in. His hand and arm were crushed by two rollers, and he suffered a partial degloving to the hand.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
