Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-02-04 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Advance Research Chemical | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee turned to reach for container lids, fell to the floor, and landed on her right elbow. She was hospitalized with a fractured elbow. | |||||
2019-09-11 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Oklahoma Roofing & Sheet Metal, LLC | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee slipped on a rung while descending a ladder, falling approximately 10 feet and breaking his left femur. | |||||
2019-03-18 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Plateplus, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person |
Two employees were servicing equipment. While a guard was being removed, it fell onto an employee's left hand, breaking two fingers. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
2018-07-24 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Claw Manufacturing | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was moving steel plates with an overhead crane when a piece slipped off the chain and struck the employee's foot/ankle. | |||||
2018-04-17 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was preparing to take a sample from a tanker truck when a reaction occurred, causing the vapor inside the tank to combust. He received second and third degree burns to his hands, arms, and the top of his head. | |||||
2017-09-15 | Cato | New York | Nutrition Bar Confectioners, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning out a dough mixing machine. The machine started while the employee's hand was inside, and the auger amputated one of the employee's fingers. | |||||
2017-06-19 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Custom Components & Logistics | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was setting up a press brake and changing from a short die to a long die. While he was holding the lower die partway into position, the press brake was activated via the foot pedal. The lower die then slid fully into position, taking his hand with it. The press brake moved to the setup position and crushed his left hand, breaking his middle finger and dislocating his index finger. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
2016-08-04 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
An employee was preparing to load a truck of emulsion. While he was lowering the stairs, the truck's loading arm drifted, catching his hand between the loading arm and spring mechanism. His ring finger was partially amputated. | |||||
2016-07-23 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Kloeckner Metals | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was operating a crane via wireless remote to move a wrapped coil. The employee noticed the hooks began to slip, so the employee sat down the coil bundle and attempted to remove the paper wrapped around the coil. In doing so, one of the hooks jolted and caught the employee's right index fingertip, amputating it. | |||||
2016-02-24 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Acme Truck Line, Inc. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was taking the tarps off his trailer when he fell approximately 5 feet, fracturing his skull and rib and suffering a collapsed lung. | |||||
2016-02-11 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Barfield Enterprises, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was unhooking chain slings on a crane moving via remote control. Hooks from the overhead crane, which was being operated remotely by a coworker, caught a 6-foot-tall bundle of steel stacked behind the employee and pulled it over onto the employee's leg. The employee's leg broke. | |||||
2015-12-15 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Bruce Oakley, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee received a compound fracture injury to the middle three fingers of his left hand when the forklift he was changing a tire on slipped from the jack. The employee's hand was caught between the bumper and the tire. | |||||
2015-09-04 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | Installed Building Products of Tulsa | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was coming down from an attic after delivering blown insulation materials using a 12-foot extension ladder. The employee fell approximately 9'10" from the ladder to the concrete floor and fractured his back. The ladder did not have anti-slip feet. | |||||
2015-05-19 | Cato | New York | Jag Environmental LLC. | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee fell from a 15 foot roof surface opening while removing material as part of asbestos remediation. The employee was wearing a personal fall arrest system that initially engaged then failed, causing the employee to strike the concrete pad beneath him. | |||||
2015-01-14 | Catoosa | Oklahoma | BKEP Materials | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
Employee was burned while unloading asphalt from a transportation vessel. The employee was in the process of cleaning the transfer lines from the vessel when he was burned on his face and arms. |