Leggett & Platt to close Ontario flooring-products plant, 125 jobs

Leggett & Platt has filed to permanently close its Ontario plant on South Champagne Avenue, cutting 125 jobs, according to a state WARN notice processed June 15. It is the most recent IE filing on the state's current report.

Leggett & Platt is a Fortune 500 industrial manufacturer in business since 1883, best known for bedding and furniture components. The Ontario site is one of its West Coast flooring-products operations, producing carpet cushion and flooring underlayment.

The closure reads as a manufacturing event, not a logistics one — a distinction that matters for how the IE's labor market is understood. The warehouse layoffs draw the coverage, but over the past year manufacturing has been the larger source of IE mass-layoff filings by both the number of notices and the number of workers affected.

A flooring-underlayment plant is also a building-products operation, which ties its fortunes to construction and residential renovation demand. The notice does not state a cause, and the company has not publicly explained the closure, so the link to the broader housing slowdown is a question the filing raises rather than answers.

The effective date falls in August. For now, the confirmed facts are the closure, the headcount, and the location.