SOOTER EXCAVATING, INC.
WICHITA STATE UNIV. - HUBBARD HALL, WICHITA, KS 67208
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Inspection records
Feb 26, 2020#344654512Feb 26, 2020Complaint (B) · Complete scope, Safety#344654512$1,6191 viol.1 violation$1,619 in penalties
Inspection #344654512
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 26, 2020
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 26, 2020
- Final Order
- Apr 30, 2020
- Closed
- Nov 9, 2020
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 18
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $2,313
- Penalties on Record
- $1,619
- Site Address
- 2774 N. Greenwich Rd., Wichita, KS 67226
- Industry
- 238910 Site Preparation Contractors
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.652 Excavations - Protection of Employees OSHA citation code: 19260652 C02 I | Serious | 1 | 2 | $2,313 | $1,619 | May 7, 2020 | - | Apr 30, 2020 |
Oct 30, 2019#344429139Oct 30, 2019Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#344429139$6,4783 viol.3 violations$6,478 in penalties
Inspection #344429139
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 30, 2019
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 30, 2019
- Final Order
- Mar 26, 2020
- Closed
- Jun 4, 2021
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 21
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 3
- Violation Types
- 3 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $16,194
- Penalties on Record
- $6,478
- Site Address
- 2774 N. Greenwich, Wichita, KS 67219
- Industry
- 238910 Site Preparation Contractors
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Violations
Violation list (3 of 3 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.651 Excavations - Specific Excavation Requirements OSHA citation code: 19260651 K01 | Serious | 1 | 4 | $5,398 | $3,239 | Mar 30, 2020 | - | Mar 26, 2020 |
| 01002A | 1926.652 Excavations - Protection of Employees OSHA citation code: 19260652 A01 | Serious | 2 | 4 | $5,398 | $3,239 | Mar 30, 2020 | - | Mar 26, 2020 |
| 01002B | 1926.652 Excavations - Protection of Employees OSHA citation code: 19260652 G01 III | Serious | 1 | 4 | $5,398 | $0 | Mar 30, 2020 | - | Mar 26, 2020 |
Mar 8, 1994#103164059Mar 8, 1994FatalityAccident (A) · Complete scope, SafetyFatality#103164059$1,0001 viol.1 violation$1,000 in penalties
Inspection #103164059
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 8, 1994
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 12, 1994
- Closed
- Nov 28, 1994
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 4
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $1,500
- Penalties on Record
- $1,000
- Site Address
- Wichita State Univ. - Hubbard Hall, Wichita, KS 67208
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
Incident Investigation Summaries
Incident investigation summaries linked to this inspection through OSHA's accident and injury enforcement data. These summaries describe the reported incident. The enforcement outcome for the linked inspection is in the inspection details above.
Employee killed when struck by falling material
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.651 Excavations - Specific Excavation Requirements OSHA citation code: 19260651 K01 | Serious | 1 | 4 | $1,500 | $1,000 | Jan 3, 1995 | - | - |
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
About these records
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OSHA's public enforcement data does not publish a "guilty" or "not guilty" field for inspections. The closest outcome fields available are the citation counts, penalty amounts, contest dates, final-order dates, and the inspection close date shown on this page. How to interpret these status fields. How initial and current penalties are recorded.
OSHA may publish multiple citation rows in the same inspection with the same standard and penalty fields. Separate rows can still differ in OSHA metadata such as citation identifier, recorded instance count, exposed workers, or gravity value. Contest and Final Order columns show citation-level dates from OSHA's enforcement record. A dash means OSHA's record does not currently show that activity for the citation.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA incident investigation data (`osha_accident` + `osha_accident_injury`). Linked via `rel_insp_nr` to the inspection activity number (exact government key). Injury, body part, source and event values are OSHA's own codes. OSHA states that these fields are not coded according to the requirements under the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Only the values present in the OSHA record are listed; an incident with no value that resolves in OSHA's code table shows "Injury details not recorded". Where a record covers several people, each field lists every value recorded across them.
Understanding These Penalties
The maximum penalty for a serious violation in 2025 is $16,550 per violation. For willful violations, the range is $11,823 to $165,514. The current penalty column shows the latest amount on record in OSHA's database for each citation. When the current penalty differs from the initial penalty, OSHA's records show that the amount changed during the enforcement process, but this page does not determine the specific reason for each change. Penalty amounts are set by OSHA and adjusted annually for inflation.
3 inspections, 1994 to 2020. Each row is one inspection; point at or tap a row for its dates and totals.
Source: DOL OSHA enforcement data (inspections and violations), linked via activity_nr (exact government key).
Penalty changes: Amounts shown reflect what OSHA's enforcement record publishes. The reason for any change is not stated unless OSHA's record explicitly says so.
Standards cited
Industry comparison
BLS 2024 survey: site preparation contractors reported 1.5 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 8.6%; NAICS 23891 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source