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	Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program

Through the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program, NIOSH conducts investigations of fatal occupational injuries. The primary intent of this program is to provide interested users with access to the full text of hundreds of fatality investigation reports.

State-based Case Reports: Oklahoma The following reports are the products of our Cooperative State partners and are presented here in their original unedited form from the states. The findings and conclusions in each report are those of the individual Cooperative State partner and do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Report No.	Incident State	Title

2006OK002	OK	A carpenter died after falling 20 feet from a roof
2005OK117	OK	A construction laborer was struck in the head and killed by a falling steel beam
2005OK076	OK	A utility cleanup worker for a brick manufacturer suffocated in a storage silo
2005OK040	OK	A gas well drilling floorhand died when he was struck by a hoisted wellhead equipment stack
2005OK038	OK	A farmer was killed while bypass-starting his tractor
2005OK024	OK	A temporary production worker died when he was caught in a tread scrap machine
2005OK019	OK	A farmer was killed while bypass-starting his tractor
2005OK011	OK	A plumber was killed when a skid-steer loader tipped forward and struck him in the head
2005OK005	OK	A press brake operator died when he was struck by a steel lug
2004OK071	OK	A lumberyard forklift operator died after being crushed between two railcar couplings
2004OK066	OK	A forklift operator was killed when his forklift was struck from behind by a motor vehicle
2004OK058	OK	An elevator operator was killed when he fell from a manlift
2004OK056	OK	A heavy equipment operator was killed when he was crushed between the lift arm and the rollover protection cage of a skid-steer loader
2004OK046	OK	Hispanic youth laborer died after being struck by lightning
2004OK028	OK	A yard hand was killed when he was crushed between the mast and the rollover protective structure of a forklift
2004OK027	OK	A driller died after falling through an opening in the oil rig floor
2004OK025	OK	A county employee died when he was crushed between two heavy equipment compaction vehicles
2004OK010	OK	Hispanic heavy equipment operator was killed while jump-starting a pad-foot drum compactor
2004OK001	OK	A 54-year-old Hispanic worker was killed when he was crushed by a forklift
2003OK098	OK	Hispanic laborer died after being struck by a vehicle in a roadway work zone
2003OK096	OK	A concrete saw operator was killed when he was pinned between the boom and the rear of a backhoe
2003OK060	OK	An oil field worker died after being struck by a falling pump jack head
2003OK058	OK	Three workers died following a propane gas explosion on a quail/pheasant farm
2003OK047	OK	A road construction worker was killed when he was run over by an asphalt dump truck
2003OK034	OK	A gas drilling rig worker died during a well cleanout operation
2003OK032	OK	A farmer was killed when he was run over by a combine
2003OK017	OK	A secretary/treasurer at a stone cutting company was killed when she was crushed by a forklift that was being jump-started
2003OK016	OK	Waste disposal worker was crushed between a waste disposal truck and a dumpster
2003OK007	OK	A county road worker died when a tow rope connection broke loose and struck him in the head
2001OK10/	OK	A bowling facility worker died when he was caught in a pinsetter machine
2001OK076	OK	A 13-year-old construction laborer died when he fell from a scaffold board and struck a scaffold cross-brace
2001OK063	OK	Rancher died when he was crushed beneath an overturned tractor
2001OK061	OK	Farmer died when she was thrown from the tractor she was operating
2001OK053	OK	Mineworker was crushed between the couplings of a rail car and the tractor used to move loaded cars on a rail spur
2001OK036	OK	Farmer died when he was crushed within a hay baler
2001OK014	OK	Worker was run over by his tractor as he tried to jump-start it in Oklahoma
2000OK073	OK	Truck driver died when concrete mixer truck overturned
2000OK045	OK	A 17-year old on a hay hauling crew died from injuries received when he fell from a moving hay truck and was apparently run over by the vehicle's tire in Oklahoma
2000OK040	OK	County road maintenance worker died when he was run over by a rotary cutter
2000OK037	OK	A 17-year old laborer for a boat dock construction company drowned while attempting to swim approximately 35 yards to shore from a construction barge in Oklahoma
2000OK009	OK	A 67-year old maintenance worker for a feed and seed retail store was killed when he was crushed by a forklift that ran off a loading dock and overturned onto him in Oklahoma
2000OK004	OK	Oilfield trainee died after being struck by a bull plug, needle valve and gauge assembly blown out of a wellhead connection
1999OK106	OK	A rancher was killed when he was crushed by a round hay bale
1999OK088	OK	A roller operator and a work crew foreman died when they were struck by a motorist in a highway work zone
1999OK018	OK	Assemblyman dies from injuries received in the failure of a gasket during a hydrostatic test
1999OK013	OK	Supervisor for a drywall contractor was fatally injured when he fell and became entangled in the frame of a manually propelled 6-foot mobile scaffold
1999OK009	OK	Construction laborer dies from injuries received in a 33-foot fall through a skylight opening
1999OK001	OK	Sign installation crew foreman dies after 30-foot fall from upper catwalk of billboard
1998OK025	OK	Farm worker dies of burn-related injuries while trapped in a burning hay baler - Oklahoma
1998OK008	OK	Derrick man dies of a crush injury following a 65-foot fall with a collapsing oil drilling rig in Oklahoma
1998OK001	OK	Construction worker dies of crush injuries after being struck by falling concrete form - Oklahoma
1997OK028	OK	Farmer dies of burn-related injuries after being trapped in a burning hay baler - Oklahoma