PRINCETON — Medical cases that Kyle Johnson’s Princeton-based Onsite Occupational Health & Safety helps cover overseas could be as serious as working with someone blown up from enemy fire in Afghanistan to aiding a civilian in India who has a sore throat.
The young turnkey company deals in outsourced medical services and solutions for mostly U.S. government and civilian contractors.
It was incorporated Jan. 1, 2008.
“Onsite is having really good success with its current clients and its customer base continues to grow,” he said.
When asked whether he is getting rich, Johnson said, “The company is still new and cutting teeth. With government contracting, we’re never going to make a whole lot of money.”
But, he says, he enjoys the work.
“I joke that if I don’t have 1,000 balls juggling in the air I’m bored. The work is always a challenge.”
The work keeps him overseas much of the time and, therein, lies his biggest challenge.
“My most challenging thing is working with the time change overseas.
“When I want to go to bed, they (citizens) are waking up or vice versa,” he said.
Onsite employs about 80 workers from different parts of the world, including nurses, doctors, paramedics and X-ray and laboratory technicians.
Why Princeton?
Some of the workers also are from different parts of Indiana, including Princeton.
Why does Onsite have its headquarters in Indiana, in Princeton?
Princeton is where Johnson’s wife, Melissa, was born and raised. The couple met in the U.S. Navy.
She was five months pregnant with their first child when he left in 1991 for the Persian Gulf War.
Johnson, a native of Joplin, Mo., and his wife returned to Princeton to raise their family.
Their children are Lauren, 20, a sophomore majoring in premedicine at the University of Southern Indiana, and Ashley, 18, who attends a private school in Princeton.
Kyle Johnson said he never graduated from high school. He said he has no time for hobbies, but enjoys piloting his Piper Cherokee airplane on U.S. trips.