North Kansas City, Missouri · Urethane and Other Foam Product (except Polystyrene) Manufacturing · NAICS 326150
4inspections
5citation items
$11,066current penalties
Feb 8, 2018last inspection
Since 1983, OSHA inspectors have visited Future Foam in Missouri 4 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Feb 8, 2018 on a referral, in North Kansas City.
In all, OSHA issued 5 citation items: 3 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $18,383; today they stand at $11,066, 40% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.178 (forklifts and other powered industrial trucks), 2 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $4,500 penalty. Future Foam averages $10,976 across 1 cited inspection.
Future Foam also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Jan 31, 2018: Employee fractures leg when backing up forklift
At 1:00 p.m. on January 31, 2018, an employee was backing up a forklift and struck a telephone pole. The employee fractured his leg when it was caught between the forklift and pole. The employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the North Kansas City site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 23 workers: 4.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Plant 5
North Kansas City · 2025
23
1
0
4.4
2.6
Future Foam Inc. Plant 5
Kansas City · 2024
22
1
0
4.5
2.6
Future Foam Inc.
Kansas City · 2022
35
2
1
5.7
2.6
Future Foam KC
Kansas City · 2021
45
3
0
6.5
2.6
Future Foam
Kansas City · 2020
35
5
0
13.3
2.6
Future Foam Kansas City 05
Kansas City · 2016
21
6
0
26.2
2.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Jan 31, 2018, North Kansas City: Hospitalization · fractures · leg(s), unspecified
An employee was driving a forklift when his left leg was caught between the forklift and a building support pole, breaking it.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
29 CFR 1910.178(a)(4)
(4) Modifications and additions which affect capacity and safe operation shall not be performed by the customer or user without manufacturers prior written approval. Capacity, operation, and maintenance instruction plates, tags, or decals shall be changed accordingly.
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(3)(i)(a)
(A) Operating instructions, warnings, and precautions for the types of truck the operator will be authorized to operate;
(i) Bandsaws and band resaws. (1) All portions of the saw blade shall be enclosed or guarded, except for the working portion of the blade between the bottom of the guide rolls and the table. Bandsaw wheels shall be fully encased. The outside periphery of the enclosure shall be solid. The front and back of the band wheels shall be either enclosed by solid material or by wire mesh or perforated metal. Such mesh or perforated metal shall be not less than 0.037 inch (U.S. Gage No. 20), and the openings shall be not greater than three-eighths inch. Solid material used for this purpose shall be of an equivalent strength and firmness. The guard for the portion of the blade between the sliding guide and the upper-saw-wheel guard shall protect the saw blade at the front and outer side. This portion of the guard shall be self-adjusting to raise and lower with the guide. The upper-wheel guard shall
29 CFR 1910.23 · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes
Other urethane and other foam product (except polystyrene) manufacturing employers in Missouri
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.
