The finding is not sitting well with state leaders.

The state of Oklahoma is getting a failing grade on the safety of workplaces across the state.The finding is not sitting well with state leaders. The labor commissioner sent a letter to the authors of that report, demanding that they change the state's score.“When I saw the media reports that the state had received an F rating in the workplace safety, I was shocked,” Labor Commissioner Melissa McLawhorn Houston said.The State of Safety report from the National Safety Council points to deficiencies in: Workplace smoking bans Drug-free laws Workers compensation.“I was fired up. I thought it was insulting to the people in Oklahoma who are working so hard on workplace safety,” Houston said.Houston said the report picked back measurements. Instead, she said they should have focused on incident rates. Oklahoma's lower than the national average and the state's trend.“We've had a 41 percent decrease in public sector injuries,” Houston said.When we asked the labor commissioner what grade she would give the state, she wouldn't because she said she thinks the scoring system used is flawed.

The state of Oklahoma is getting a failing grade on the safety of workplaces across the state.

The finding is not sitting well with state leaders. The labor commissioner sent a letter to the authors of that report, demanding that they change the state's score.


“When I saw the media reports that the state had received an F rating in the workplace safety, I was shocked,” Labor Commissioner Melissa McLawhorn Houston said.

Workplace smoking bans

Drug-free laws

Workers compensation.

“I was fired up. I thought it was insulting to the people in Oklahoma who are working so hard on workplace safety,” Houston said.

Houston said the report picked back measurements. Instead, she said they should have focused on incident rates. Oklahoma's lower than the national average and the state's trend.

“We've had a 41 percent decrease in public sector injuries,” Houston said.

When we asked the labor commissioner what grade she would give the state, she wouldn't because she said she thinks the scoring system used is flawed.