Norman Oklahoma – Machine Injury & Accidents

Norman Oklahoma is a town of about 45,000 people located in central Oklahoma. Norman has a population of about 125,000 and the GDP per capita is $48,000. Norman is an agricultural center and has a lot of machinery in use. Accidents involving machinery are frequent in Norman and there have been a number of accidents recently that have raised concerns.

Manufacturing Companies

Norman Oklahoma is home to a variety of manufacturing companies. Some of the most well-known companies that are located in Norman include:

Southwestern Wire, Inc.
Hitachi Computer Products (america), Inc.
Avara Pharmaceutical Technologies, Inc.
Evans Enterprises, Inc.
Stonehouse Marketing Services, L.L.C.
Aztec Building Systems, Inc.
Dust Cutter

Native Distributing LLC
Bergey Windpower Company, Inc.
Transcript Press, LLC
Quality Buildings Inc
Rentzel Energy Equipment Company
Arcosa Acg, Inc.
M3 Technology Solutions, LLC

These companies provide jobs and economic growth for the city of Norman.

Machinery Accidents

In Norman, Oklahoma, machinery accidents can occur at any time. The city is home to a number of businesses, including manufacturing plants and agricultural operations, which can lead to accidents involving equipment.

If you have been injured as a result of a machinery accident in Norman, it is important to contact an experienced accident lawyer. A knowledgeable lawyer can help you determine whether you are entitled to any compensation and can represent you in court if necessary.

Here are some examples of machinery accidents that have occurred in Norman:

AccidentDate	Employer	City	State	Description	Injury	Body Part	Event	Injury Source	Other Injury Source
07/07/2021	Silver Star Construction Company, Inc.	Norman	Ok	An employee collapsed at the end of the work day due to dehydration and heat-related illness.	Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
03/06/2021	Sprouts Farmers Market; Store 803	Norman	Ok	An employee was removing a 30-pound tray of salmon from a rolling tray rack when the tray became jammed in the rack. When it came unjammed, it impacted the employee's left middle finger, just after the nail bed, up to the first knuckle. The employee suffered a crush injury with the loss of skin.	Avulsions, enucleations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment	Pots, pans, trays	Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
01/06/2021	P&K Equipment, Inc.	Norman	Ok	An employee was observing the installation of a boom mower which was being moved by a forklift. When the load was relieved from the forklift on the left side, the assembly shifted toward the forklift and out of alignment with the tractor. The forklift operator attempted to reposition the load balance; however, the load shifted forward and the right side of the assembly dropped off the forks to the ground, striking the employee's right foot. The right foot was crushed and the tibia, fibula, and h	Fractures	Foot(feet) and leg(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part	Vehicle and mobile equipment parts	Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
07/05/2021	Southwestern Wire, Inc.	Norman	Ok	An employee had been running a weave machine which makes chain link. The employee made an adjustment by tightening a chain to a gear and then went to lunch. Upon returning from lunch, he turned on the machine and noticed the guard on the back of the machine was on the floor. The employee picked up the guard to put it back in place. The gear pulled in his gloved left hand and amputated the pads of the two middle fingers.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery	Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
24/02/2021	CIMMARRON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY	Norman	Ok	The injured employee was rigging boring machine tracks. A chain was used to lift and reposition the tracks. While the tracks were suspended, the boring machine operator went to boom up and the injured employee's left thumb was caught between the tracks and the rigging chain, resulting in a partial left thumb amputation.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Mining and drilling machinery
02/07/2020	CBA Rockcreek LLC	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was checking whether a car's fan was working when the fan partially amputated his left ring and index fingers.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Automobile
20/06/2020	United States Postal Service	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was delivering mail to a residence when a dog came through the unsecured front door and bit the employee's legs and hand.	Open wounds	Upper and lower limb(s)	Other animal bites, nonvenomous	Dogs, canines-domestic
17/03/2020	Johnson Controls, Inc.	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was breaking loose a bundle of sheet metal parts. The bundle had been placed on a wood pallet on a table. The whole bundle of sheet metal parts slipped off the table, falling to the ground and landing on the employee's right foot. The employee sustained fractures to four toes.	Fractures	Toes(s), toenail(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.	Bundles, bales	Tables, worktables
13/02/2020	Johnson Controls, Inc.	Norman	Oklahoma	While holding a sheet metal part and bending it in a press brake, an employee's right ring fingertip was caught between the sheet metal part and the work rest. The right middle fingertip was amputated.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Brake presses
18/08/2019	OG & E	Norman	Oklahoma	A meter technician was replacing a CT meter loop that had been damaged during a storm; he had been working outdoors most of the day. He became ill, with blurred vision and disorientation. He was hospitalized for dehydration and/or heart-related issues.	Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
20/07/2019	Johnson Controls, Inc.	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee operating a press brake sustained partial amputations to the left index finger and the right middle finger when both of his hands were caught between the dies.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Brake presses
03/07/2019	Hamilton Growers, Inc.	Norman Park	Georgia	An employee had been picking squash in the fields all day. He sustained heat stroke and was hospitalized.	Heat stroke	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
19/04/2019	SiteOne Landscape Supply	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was tightening tie-down straps on a flatbed truck when he fell off the truck to the ground, suffering a broken right hip.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level	Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
15/03/2019	JOHNSON CONTROLS	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was operating a press brake while forming parts when the employee's fingers entered the line of fire, resulting in three fractured fingers. The employee was hospitalized.	Fractures	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Brake presses
01/09/2018	HILAND DAIRY FOODS	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was taking inventory inside a truck when he fell out of the truck to the concrete floor, suffering a back injury and internal bleeding.	Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level	Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility	Floor, n.e.c.
23/08/2018	SOUTHERN VALLEY FRUIT & VEGETABLE, INC.	Norman Park	Georgia	An employee passed out while having lunch in a packing shed, requiring hospitalization for dehydration.	Multiple effects of heat and light	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
06/07/2017	Oklahoma Roofing and Sheetmetal Co.	Norman	Oklahoma	A temporary employee was admitted to the hospital with heat exhaustion/stroke.	Multiple effects of heat and light	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
25/01/2017	Concrete Enterprises, Inc.	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was behind the dump truck trying to pull the dump gate up in order to drop it back against the truck and loosen gravel. The truck driver lowered the truck bed and the dump gate crushed the employee's right ring finger.	Crushing injuries	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Dump truck
05/01/2017	Hamilton Growers, Inc.	Norman Park	Georgia	An employee was working at the shop running a 10-inch-long, 3-inch-wide piece of metal through a homemade roller machine. The employee was attempting to curve the piece of metal so that it would go on a wheel. While running the piece of metal through the roller, the employee's index finger was caught between the metal and the roller. The employee's right index fingertip was smashed and cut, resulting in a soft tissue amputation.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Bending, rolling, shaping machinery
07/09/2016	HANSEN MASONRY Contractors, Inc	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was dismantling a scaffold when the pin from the toe board came out, lifting the guardrail up. The employee went to grab the guardrail as it was falling and fell with it. The employee fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below, fracturing an arm and cheekbones and suffering numerous contusions.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet	Scaffolds-staging
07/08/2016	U.S. Postal Service	Norman	Oklahoma	On 8/7/16, at about 3:30 p.m., an employee injured his back while re-arranging office furniture, requiring hospitalization.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Overexertion involving outside sources	Furniture
22/06/2016	AAA Well Service, LLC	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was lifting power tongs from a tong cradle when his finger was caught between the tongs and tong cradle. His right middle fingertip was amputated.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment	Oil drilling rigs and machinery
11/06/2016	SOUTHERN VALLEY FRUIT & VEGETABLE, INC.	Norman Park	Georgia	The employee was pushing boxes down the conveyor line when a box got stuck on the line. As the employee tried to release it from where it was caught, her finger became caught in the chain on the conveyor line resulting in a partial amputation of the fourth finger on her left hand.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Conveyors-chain
15/04/2016	Bosworth Steel Erectors, Inc	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee in an aerial lift was pulling on a come-along to align a piece of steel. The chain broke and struck the employee's leg, knocking him to the floor of the lift. He suffered a broken tibia and fibula.	Fractures	Lower leg(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.	Floor	Chains, n.e.c.
15/03/2016	StoneHouse Marketing	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was operating a 75-ton die cutter and was having problems with the sensor position device. While he was attempting to adjust the sensor, his left index finger was crushed by the machine. The die cutter was running at the time of the incident.	Crushing injuries	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning	Paper production machinery
03/03/2016	Carter Construction, Inc.	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee's fingertip was amputated while stretching a cable.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Contact with objects and equipment	Wire, cables-nonelectrical
02/11/2015	Southwest Wire	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was on top of a weaving machine to view a counter. The employee slipped and fell. As the employee fell, the employee's right hand contacted an unguarded chain and sprocket. The employee's right pinky finger was severely lacerated and amputated at the hospital.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Other fall to lower level	Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery
15/10/2015	NORMAN PARK GIN & WAREHOUSE, INC.	Norman Park	Georgia	An employee's arm got tangled in tarp as he tried to keep it tightly rolled in the tarp equipment's roller. Both bones in his left forearm were fractured.	Fractures	Forearm(s)	Entangled in other object or equipment	Machinery	Tarps, plastic or fabric sheeting
16/09/2015	A1 Electric Heat and Air	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee was walking in the attic to install HVAC equipment and fell between the studs to the concrete floor below resulting in a skull fracture.	Fractures	Skull	Fall through surface or existing opening	Roof trusses, joists
15/07/2015	Highland Dairy	Norman	Oklahoma	An employee working in the yard moving trailers with a spotting truck suffered heat stress and was hospitalized.	Effects of heat and light	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
04/05/2015	SHERWOOD CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.	Norman	Oklahoma	A road construction crew was using a track-hoe to cover a hole in the roadway with a steel plate. The chain rigging used to suspend the plate slipped or otherwise failed, causing the plate to shift. An employee tried to prevent the plate from falling, which resulted in injuries to the right side of the employee's body, including a broken right pinky finger, lacerations to the right arm, a broken right tibia, and five broken bones in the right foot. The employee underwent surgery and was hospi	Fractures	Upper and lower limb(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part	Metal plates, metal panels	Overhead hoists
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