Commissioner Ron Peters announced Shelton’s death at the commissioners’ morning meeting. Tulsa County officials took the news hard Monday. “He was the consummate family man,” Bell said. He resigned from that position earlier this year.īell said Shelton was one of the best ride inspectors in the country who loved his family more than anything. “We worked on the Sky Ride together and I would trust my life with either of those men any day, anytime and any where.”Īfter Bell’s closed in 2006, Shelton went to work at Expo Square, where he was a well-liked duty man. “There were many times when I worked with both of them,” Bell said.
The men were working for DMC Tulsa, LLC, the lessee and operator of the Sky Ride.īell said the man in the bucket with Shelton was Michael Record, another former Bell’s Amusement Park employee. The incident is still under investigation, and the state Medical Examiner’s Office has not released an official cause of death. When the Fire Department arrived, they found one man conscious and the other unconscious and in critical condition, said EMSA’s Kelli Bruer. Shelton and another worker were doing routine maintenance on the Sky Ride Saturday morning when the bucket they were in collapsed and fell to the ground, leaving the men dangling by their harnesses, the Tulsa World reported. Shelton was killed Saturday while doing routine maintenance on the ride. Steve Shelton stands next to a Sky Ride car at a recent Tulsa State Fair. But inside that strong physique was one of the most tender-hearted and sweet guys you would ever meet.” “He was one of the strongest men that I have ever known. “And even though so many of those people were wonderful employees, I cannot think of one that was better than Steve Shelton. “Me and my father, we have had tens of thousands of people who worked for our family from 1951 to 2006,” Bell said. He leaves behind his wife, Katie, who is expecting their second child any day, and a daughter, Hannah, 5. Shelton, 43, died Saturday doing what he loved - working the Sky Ride at Expo Square. “We would love to work on the Zingo and on the Sky Ride because it’s amazing how quiet it gets when you get about 20 feet off the ground. “You know how busy it gets,” at the fairgrounds, said Bell. Indeed, he relished doing his work high above the ground, the better to get away from the hustle and bustle below. He was strong as an ox, Robby Bell would tell you, and sweet as could be. Steve Shelton went to work for Bell’s Amusement Park in 1988. Shelton died Saturday while doing routine maintenance on the ride. Steve Shelton, in red, stands with co-workers at
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