diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f1b8ff1f91..d5641fd18c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
     Bug #6913: Constant effect enchanted items don't break invisibility
     Bug #6923: Dispose of corpse prevents respawning after load
     Bug #6937: Divided by Nix Hounds quest is broken
+    Bug #7008: Race condition on initializing a vector of reserved node names
     Feature #890: OpenMW-CS: Column filtering
     Feature #1465: "Reset" argument for AI functions
     Feature #2491: Ability to make OpenMW "portable"
diff --git a/components/resource/scenemanager.cpp b/components/resource/scenemanager.cpp
index 63319840bd..610aa6b506 100644
--- a/components/resource/scenemanager.cpp
+++ b/components/resource/scenemanager.cpp
@@ -619,6 +619,67 @@ namespace Resource
 
             return node;
         }
+
+        std::vector<std::string> makeSortedReservedNames()
+        {
+            static constexpr std::string_view names[] = {
+                "Head",
+                "Neck",
+                "Chest",
+                "Groin",
+                "Right Hand",
+                "Left Hand",
+                "Right Wrist",
+                "Left Wrist",
+                "Shield Bone",
+                "Right Forearm",
+                "Left Forearm",
+                "Right Upper Arm",
+                "Left Upper Arm",
+                "Right Foot",
+                "Left Foot",
+                "Right Ankle",
+                "Left Ankle",
+                "Right Knee",
+                "Left Knee",
+                "Right Upper Leg",
+                "Left Upper Leg",
+                "Right Clavicle",
+                "Left Clavicle",
+                "Weapon Bone",
+                "Tail",
+                "Bip01",
+                "Root Bone",
+                "BoneOffset",
+                "AttachLight",
+                "Arrow",
+                "Camera",
+                "Collision",
+                "Right_Wrist",
+                "Left_Wrist",
+                "Shield_Bone",
+                "Right_Forearm",
+                "Left_Forearm",
+                "Right_Upper_Arm",
+                "Left_Clavicle",
+                "Weapon_Bone",
+                "Root_Bone",
+            };
+
+            std::vector<std::string> result;
+            result.reserve(std::size(names));
+
+            for (std::string_view name : names)
+            {
+                std::string prefixedName("Tri ");
+                prefixedName += name;
+                result.push_back(std::move(prefixedName));
+            }
+
+            std::sort(result.begin(), result.end(), Misc::StringUtils::ciLess);
+
+            return result;
+        }
     }
 
     osg::ref_ptr<osg::Node> load (const std::string& normalizedFilename, const VFS::Manager* vfs, Resource::ImageManager* imageManager, Resource::NifFileManager* nifFileManager)
@@ -638,23 +699,9 @@ namespace Resource
             if (name.empty())
                 return false;
 
-            static std::vector<std::string> reservedNames;
-            if (reservedNames.empty())
-            {
-                const char* reserved[] = {"Head", "Neck", "Chest", "Groin", "Right Hand", "Left Hand", "Right Wrist", "Left Wrist", "Shield Bone", "Right Forearm", "Left Forearm", "Right Upper Arm",
-                                          "Left Upper Arm", "Right Foot", "Left Foot", "Right Ankle", "Left Ankle", "Right Knee", "Left Knee", "Right Upper Leg", "Left Upper Leg", "Right Clavicle",
-                                          "Left Clavicle", "Weapon Bone", "Tail", "Bip01", "Root Bone", "BoneOffset", "AttachLight", "Arrow", "Camera", "Collision", "Right_Wrist", "Left_Wrist",
-                                          "Shield_Bone", "Right_Forearm", "Left_Forearm", "Right_Upper_Arm", "Left_Clavicle", "Weapon_Bone", "Root_Bone"};
-
-                reservedNames = std::vector<std::string>(reserved, reserved + sizeof(reserved)/sizeof(reserved[0]));
-
-                for (unsigned int i=0; i<sizeof(reserved)/sizeof(reserved[0]); ++i)
-                    reservedNames.push_back(std::string("Tri ") + reserved[i]);
-
-                std::sort(reservedNames.begin(), reservedNames.end(), Misc::StringUtils::ciLess);
-            }
+            static const std::vector<std::string> reservedNames = makeSortedReservedNames();
 
-            std::vector<std::string>::iterator it = Misc::partialBinarySearch(reservedNames.begin(), reservedNames.end(), name);
+            const auto it = Misc::partialBinarySearch(reservedNames.begin(), reservedNames.end(), name);
             return it != reservedNames.end();
         }