Employer · WARN Act history · Manufacturing
Dalton
538 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in IN - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 538
- Workers cut
- 2
- WARN notices
- 1
- State
- 269
- Avg / notice
Dalton has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 538 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Dalton has 2 recorded filings covering 538 workers across 1 state, primarily IN, the 339th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Dalton is a minor share of Manufacturing WARN activity — 0.3% of the sector's 211,445 workers across 776 employers, ranking #47 in Manufacturing.
How 538 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Dalton city concentration · concentrated
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Kendallville accounts for 52.2% of Dalton's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Lead city Kendallville · 52.2% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer DALTON · Dalton 538 workers · 2 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-EXACT · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-CLOSE
- NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #339
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-EXACT 60d
- STAT-SINGLE IN
- BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
- TYPE-CLOSE 2 closures
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Dalton WARN filings · notice runway
Top 2 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Kendallville, IN · Closure · Manufacturing 281 workers · filed Dec 9, 2008 · 143d runway
- Warsaw, IN · Closure · Manufacturing 257 workers · filed Dec 29, 2025 · 60d runway
Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 102 days (0 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d ).
Where Dalton Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Dalton is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#339 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Dec 2025.
WARN Notice History
2025
Warsaw, IN · Manufacturing
Effective: Feb 27, 2026
257
workers
Filed Dec 29, 2025
2008
Kendallville, IN · Manufacturing
Effective: May 1, 2009
281
workers
Filed Dec 9, 2008
Questions about this Dalton record
What is the largest Dalton WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for Kendallville, IN on Dec 9, 2008, covering 281 workers in Manufacturing.
Where were Dalton's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Warsaw and Kendallville; together they form 2 facility-closure filings sourced from Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: IN.
Where is Dalton's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Kendallville accounts for 52.2% of Dalton's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Does Dalton's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2008 through 2025 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Dalton's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway lands exactly on the federal 60-day baseline; verify the source dates before treating that timing as final.
See also: IN WARN filings · Manufacturing industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Dalton notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.