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Federal Tipoffs Involving Oklahoma Newsletter for Tuesday March 19, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Department of Labor Investigation of Worker's Confined Space Fatality Finds Oklahoma City-Area Contractor Ignored Federal Safety Measures
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 19 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: An Oklahoma City employer's failure to follow federal safety procedures left a 30-year-old worker suffering fatal asphyxiation as they tried to make repairs inside a water tank at a McClain County wellsite in September 2023, a federal investigation has found. Responding to the report of a fatality in Purcell, investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor's   more

USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted for from WWII (Malek, M.)
WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 2nd Class Michael Malek, 17, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 24, 2021. On Dec. 7, 1941, Malek was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahom  more