Southern Crane Celebrates Accident-Free Year

December 19, 2007 • Southern Industrial Constructors, Raleigh, N.C., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Southern Crane, recently achieved another safety milestone when its Wilmington branch office celebrated one year without any recordable injury or illness. 

The company's 166 Wilmington-area employees worked 346,077 hours between November 2006 and November 2007 without a single recordable incident as defined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  

 

“At Southern Industrial, our policy says it all: Safety is our number-one priority,” said Phil Hooper, vice president of safety and risk management.  

 

“That's why we go above and beyond what is required by law to implement our own high safety standards and guidelines,” Hooper added. “We do it not just for the security of our workers, but the security of the general public, as well. This milestone is a perfect example of how our employees demonstrate their strong commitment to following our safety policy day in, day out.” 

  

Because of their exemplary safety records, both Southern Industrial and Southern Crane are among the few companies in the state recognized as STAR contractors by the N.C. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Division. All of Southern Crane's operators are CCO certified.