SFPA Announces Sawmill Safety Award Winners
Southern Forest Products Assn. announced the recipients of the John Edgar Rhodes 2023 Sawmill Safety Excellence Awards. The awards embody the impact, dedication and legacy of the association’s founding leader, John Edgar Rhodes.
The eight award recipients represent a record of 2,282,255 total hours worked among 987 employees, achieving safety excellence with zero reported incidents. As a side note, this follows two years in a row where seven member mills reported zero incidents.
SFPA lumber manufacturer members are considered for the award based on standardized information submitted using OSHA Form 300A. Awards are presented in three divisions and safety performance is judged by how each mill’s safety record stacks up against facilities with comparable lumber output throughout the year.
Division One: (SFPA member mills that produce 50MMBF or less annually)
—Almond Brothers Lumber Co., Coushatta, La.
—McShan Lumber Co., McShan, Ala.
—Swift Lumber, Atmore, Ala.
Division Two: (SFPA member mills that produce 51-150MMBF annually)
—West Fraser, Fitzgerald, Ga.
—West Fraser, Lake Butler, Fla.
—West Fraser, Blackshear, Ga.
—West Fraser, Mansfield, Ark.
Division Three: (SFPA member mills that produce more than 150MMBF annually)—LaSalle Lumber Co., Urania, La.
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