105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

M W Piping Fabrication, LLC

Exposure to environmental heat indoor · Effects of heat unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at M W Piping Fabrication, LLC, 5001 West 21st Street South, TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74107 on — Effects of heat unspecified, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .

An employee was fitting a pipe on a table in the weld shop when they became disoriented fell down. The employee was hospitalized for heat stress.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat environmental

Whataburger

An employee was working on the grill when they began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized to treat heat-related illness. The air conditioning was not working at the location.

Overland Contracting, Inc.

An employee had been working in a fabrication area conducting preassembly of solar modules. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness, rhabdomyolysis, and renal failure.

Earl W. Colvard, Inc

An employee was working in the baking chambers of the tire retread center for 5.5-6 hours in approximately 100-degree heat. He developed severe pain and full body cramping. The employee was hospitalized with severe dehydration and heat exhaustion resulting in back pain and a kidney injury.

Stoelzle Glass USA Inc.

An employee was working at an individual selection machine when he began to suffer heat stress, resulting in hospitalization.

Gerdau

On August 8, 2025, an employee developed muscle cramps and dizziness. Later, while working on a plant floor, he developed full-body cramps. He was hospitalized, suffering from head exhaustion.

Valiant Steel & Equipment, Inc.

An employee was rolling a pipe in a cutting rack and his right little finger became caught between sections of the pipe. The employee's finger was surgically amputated.

Titan Mechanical, Inc

An employee was working a vertical bandsaw, cutting half-inch diameter rods into pieces. While using a steel chisel to move the cut pieces, the blade caught his leather glove and pulled his index finger in. The employee sustained an amputation of the finger between the first and second knuckle.

PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC.

An employee was operating a lathe in a machine shop. The rotating head of the lathe caught the employee's left glove, resulting in a compound open fracture to the left wrist and a laceration to left ear.

Tenaris Bay City, Inc.

An employee was descending the stairs of an oil/gas rig. As he approached the fifth step from the bottom, he slipped. His left ankle was caught in the steps, and he suffered fractures to the left fibula, tibia, and talus. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Tulsa Tube Bending Co., Inc.

The injured employee was loading a piece of pipe into a pipe bending machine. He had his right hand on the front of the loader while his left hand supported the piece of pipe in the back. A second operator had slightly clamped around the pipe to keep it in place. The third operator called out a measurement. The machine actuated and caught the the injured employee's left middle and ring fingers between the wiper and the material. The employee required surgery and sustained amputations to the distal joint of the middle and ring fingers.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

Meeco Sullivan

An employee was cutting a piece of metal rod with a metal cutting machine. His right middle finger became caught between the rod and the machine's table. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

Edward Jones Investments

An employee was working at her desk. She went to stand up and fell to the floor beside the desk. The employee sustained a hip displacement and required surgery.

Burgess Manufacturing of Oklahoma Inc.

An employee was processing wood boards at a chop saw when the saw malfunctioned and the blade cut her left hand and fingers. She was hospitalized and her little finger was surgically amputated.