TULSA, OKLAHOMA—
GD Energy Products, LLC
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at GD Energy Products, LLC, 4747 S. 83rd E. Avenue, TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74145 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was installing a blind flange onto a pump fluid end. The employee was pushing the flange into place when their left index finger was caught between the fluid end and the blind flange of the counterbore of the steel pump. The fingertip was amputated.
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