| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-23 | Claremore | Ok | EMCO Industries, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee suffered heat stress and lost consciousness after working a 10.5-hour shift at a hot forge plant. | |||||
| 2021-01-12 | Claremore | Ok | BRAUM'S, Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
| An employee tripped and fell after returning a shopping cart to a storage area. She landed on the floor and broke her left hip. | |||||
| 2019-09-06 | Claremore | Oklahoma | AXH AIR COOLERS | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 26 to 30 feet |
| At 7:27 AM, two maintenance workers were working in an aerial lift that was 27 feet off of ground. They were servicing an overhead crane. Another overhead crane ran into the aerial lift, tipping it over. The two maintenance workers were hospitalized with fractures to their backs and other injuries. | |||||
| 2019-03-18 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a crane when a strap attached to a work bench broke and whipped back, hitting the employee in the hand and amputating the right middle finger. | |||||
| 2018-09-19 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Will Rogers Downs, LLC | Foot (feet) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
| An employee was standing on a piece of plastic that was on top of a piece of metal while a second employee was drilling up through the metal. The drill bit then punctured the first employee's right foot. | |||||
| 2018-08-27 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Will Rogers Downs | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee's hand was slammed in a bulldozer door as he left the vehicle. The employee's right ring and little fingers were injured; at the hospital, the tip of the little finger was amputated below the first joint. | |||||
| 2018-06-01 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Baker Hughes, a GE Company | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was pulling a pipe from a rack using a tool when the tool slipped, causing her to lose her balance in a backwards motion. While in motion, her foot became caught on a rail (extends approximately 1/2-inch above the surface), causing her to fall on and break her right hip in two places. She was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-05-17 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Baker Hughes | Thigh(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment |
| A piece of wood/splinter from a wooden crate embedded in an employee's left thigh. | |||||
| 2017-10-12 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Oklahoma Roofing & Sheet Metal, LLC | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was removing hot tar from a hot pipe and placing it in a lugger when the wire broke, causing the lugger to fall on the employee. He received burns to the left side of his face, his left arm, and the back of his neck. | |||||
| 2016-09-26 | Claremore | Oklahoma | UPCO, Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee was operating a pendant crane to move a bundle of 20 sinker bars onto a stack that was eight levels high. As he was unstrapping the hook from the bundle, a banding from another bundle beneath had become undone, causing the bundle of rods to collapse. He was caught in the fallen bundle of rods, causing multiple fractures to both legs. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2016-08-02 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Southern Shingles Roofing Materials and Supplies | Whole body | Roadway noncollision incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee drove off the road while delivering shingles with a forklift. The forklift overturned and crushed the employee. | |||||
| 2016-08-01 | Claremore | Oklahoma | UPCO, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a press to remove a cylinder rod from a piston when a spring released its tension, causing the employee's finger to be caught between the piston and the press. The employee's right index finger was amputated up to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-04-06 | Claremore | Oklahoma | HydroHoist Marine Group | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to push a 400- to 500-pound upright plastic floater when his left ring fingertip was caught between the plastic tank and a forklift tine. He suffered a possible fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2016-03-16 | Claremore | Oklahoma | EMCO Industries, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was troubleshooting an eye machine when all four fingers on his right hand were crushed and broken between the rear bearing plate and the main slide floating assembly. | |||||
| 2016-02-29 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Valmont Coatings/Oklahoma Galvanizing | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was putting wire on a U-shaped, steel channel frame, balanced on forklift tines, in order to attach the frame to an overhead crane. The steel frame began to fall backwards, and the employee tried to maintain its balance causing the employee's right pinky finger to get caught between the forklift frame and the fork tines. The employee's right pinky finger was removed from above the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2016-02-12 | Claremore | Oklahoma | Pelco Structural, LLC | Face | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a handheld angle grinder on a light pole base when the grinder rebounded and contacted his unprotected face. The employee suffered a severe laceration to the left side of the face. The grinder was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-02-17 | Claremore | Oklahoma | National Oil Varco Completions & Product Solutions | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| On 2/17/2015 at approximately 9:00 a.m., an employee was removing a stator (pipe) from a pre-treat oven. The tooling at the base of the stator caught on a cavity inside the oven. The crane continued to pull the part up and as the employee was trying to move the part, the hook of the holding device sheared and smashed his left index finger. The amputation occurred when the employee tried to pull his hand out of the way. | |||||