Slag Association recognizes Tube City facilities with safety awards

Tube City IMS Corp., Pittsburgh, a company providing steel mill services to customers throughout the world, has announced that it has received 48 Safety Awards from the National Slag Association (NSA) for 2013. The awards were presented during the NSA’s fall meeting in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The NSA is dedicated to promoting the use of blast furnace and steel furnace slag.

The safety awards recognize superior performance as measured against Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordable injury rates.

The company adds that the 48 awards it received is the most ever received by any individual steel mill services company.

“Tube City IMS prides itself on safety and we are honored to receive these important awards,” says Raymond Kalouche, president and CEO, Tube City IMS. “There is no higher priority than our commitment to the safety of our employees, customers, facilities and communities in which we operate. Our No. 1 goal is to have zero incidents and we strive for that every day. I applaud all Tube City IMS employees on receiving these awards. We have a staff of top-class professionals who work to ensure safe operations in every facet of their work and at every one of our operations throughout the world.”

The company’s operation in Knoxville, Tennessee, received the award for “2013 Most Improved Job Sites for Safety.”

Other Tube City IMS operations and the categories for which they were recognized with safety awards are:

• Job Sites with at least 200,000 hours since last recordable accident: Beaumont, Texas; Cayce, South Carolina; Gary, Indiana; Girard and Middletown, Ohio; and Horsham, Pennsylvania
• Lowest incident rate for employees: Birmingham, Calvert and Fairfield, Alabama; Mesa, Arizona; Claymont, Delaware; Rush, Kentucky; Chicago, Granite City, Kankakee and Peoria, Illinois; Burns Harbor, East Chicago and Gary, Indiana; Convent, Louisiana; Ecorse and Jackson, Michigan; St. Paul, Minnesota; Jackson, Mississippi; Girard, Middletown and Mingo Junction, Ohio; McMinnville, Oregon; Belle Vernon, Bridgeville, Horsham, Johnstown and New Castle, Pennsylvania; Cayce, South Carolina; Gallatin, Tennessee; Beaumont, Freeport, Lonestar and Longview, Texas; Plymouth, Utah; and Saukville, Wisconsin.

Company sites in Canada receiving safety awards for “Lowest incident rate” for employees were Hamilton, L’Original, and Nanticoke, Ontario; and Regina, Saskatchewan.