130+ AISC MEMBERS RECEIVE SAFETY AWARDS

https://www.aisc.org/modernsteel/news/2023/february/130-aisc-members-receive-safety-awards/

AISC is pleased to honor more than 130 structural steel fabricators and erectors for their outstanding safety records in 2022.

“The dedicated people who work in fabrication shops and on jobsites across the country are what really sets domestically fabricated structural steel apart,” said AISC Senior Director of Engineering Tom Schlafly. “AISC is proud to recognize those who truly put safety first to protect our industry’s greatest asset: talented, passionate workers.”

Most of this year’s winners have earned the Institute’s top safety award, the Safety Award of Honor, which is presented for a perfect record of no disabling injuries (DART=0–see below for more info about DART data).

“A culture of workplace safety only works if everyone in the organization, from top to bottom, actively participates and commits to looking out for one another,” said AISC Safety Committee Chair John Schuepbach. “When leaders take ownership and make safety a top priority, it encourages employees at all levels of the company to do the same–and it’s a lot of work on everyone’s part. This year’s Safety Award recipients deserve a lot of credit for their dedication to safety in the field and in the shop.”

AISC relies on information that companies also report to OSHA to determine Safety Award recipients: their Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) rates. The DART measures the number of recordable lost work cases per 200,000 man hours worked. AISC bases the awards on cases (not days) as reported to OSHA on the 300A form, along with the hours worked in the year.

AISC presents a Safety Award of Honor to fabricators and erectors with perfect records (a DART of zero). Those with excellent records (0<DART≤1) earn a Safety Award of Merit, and Safety Commendations recognize companies with DARTs greater than one and less than or equal to two.

The awards program is open to all AISC member fabricators and erectors, and applications for the program are solicited annually. Awards are issued separately for fabrication and erection companies. In order to be eligible to win an award, the member company must submit a copy of their OSHA 300A form for verification purposes.

AISC features Safety Award recipients online, in Modern Steel Construction, and at NASCC: The Steel Conference–which this year incorporates the first-ever SafetyCon. SafetyCon and the Steel Conference will take place in Charlotte, N.C., April 12 to 14.

The specialty conference’s 11 sessions focus on crucial topics like mental health and suicide prevention, OSHA’s lockout/tagout standard, how to prepare for and manage an OSHA inspection, and much more. To see all 11 sessions, search the session list for the safety track.

For more information and resources on safety for the fabricated and erected structural steel industry, visit aisc.org/safety.

Safety Award of Honor (DART = 0) – Fabrication

• AF Steel Fabricators, Chandler, Ariz.
• Alamo Structural Steel, Waco, Texas
• Alpha Iron, Ridgefield, Wash.
• Apollo Steel, LLC, Jaffrey, N.H.
• Associated Steel Fabricators, Inc., Tomball, Texas
• B & B Welding Company, Inc., Fort Howard, Md.
• BENCHMARK Fabricated Steel, Terre Haute, Ind.
• C & F Steel Company, Inc., Hamilton, Texas
• Chesapeake Bay Steel, Inc., Norfolk, Va.
• Cianbro Fabrication & Coating Corporation, Pittsfield, Maine
• Continental Steel Works Inc., Butte, Mont.
• Crowder Industrial Construction, Spartanburg, S.C.
• Delta Steel Inc., Saginaw, Mich.
• Diversatech-Metalfab LLC, Gridley, Ill.
• Dixie Southern Industrial, Inc., Polk City, Fla.
• Eddy’s Welding, Inc., Ellicott City, Md.
• F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc., Indianapolis
• FabSouth, LLC, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
• Fiedeldey Steel Fabricators, Inc., Cincinnati
• Florida Structural Steel, Gibsonton, Fla.
• Fresno Fab-Tech, Inc., Sanger, Calif.
• G2 Metal Fab, Inc., Livermore, Calif.
• George’s Welding Services, Inc., Miami
• Gibson Industrial Inc., Richmond, Va.
• Gira Steel West, Columbia, S.C.
• GMF Industries, Inc., Lakeland, Fla.
• Gremp Steel Company, Posen, Ill.
• Hall Industries, Inc., Ellwood City, Pa.
• High Plains Steel Services, LLC, Windsor, Colo.
• Hillsdale Fabricators, a Division of Alberici Constructors, St. Louis
• Iowa Engineered Processes Co., Independence, Iowa
• J.R. Hoe and Sons, Middlesboro, Ky.
• Jonquil Steel and Construction Inc., Mableton, Ga.
• Larwel Industries, Bedford, Texas
• Lee’s Imperial Welding Inc., Fremont, Calif.
• Levan Associates Inc., Emmaus, Pa.
• LMC Industrial Contractors, Avon, N.Y.
• M & J Steel LLC, Trussville, Ala.
• Maccabee Industrial Inc., Belle Vernon, Pa.
• Mast Farm Service, LTD, Millersburg, Ohio
• McClean Iron Works, Everett, Wash.
• McCombs Steel Company, Inc., Statesville, N.C.
• New Industries, LLC, Morgan City, La.
• NOVA Group, Inc., Napa, Calif.
• Ogeechee Steel, Inc., Swainsboro, Ga.
• Penn Steel Fabrication, Inc., Bristol, Pa.
• Phoenix Fabrication & Supply, Inc., Peotone, Ill.
• Pioneer Erectors, Grand Rapids, Mich.
• Premier Fabrication, LLC, Congerville, Ill.
• Prospect Steel, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Armorel, Ariz.
• RCC Fabricators, Inc., Paterson, N.J.
• Resolute Performance Iron, Inc., Tempe, Ariz.
• Rochester Rigging & Erectors, Inc., Bloomfield, N.Y.
• Rochester Structural, LLC, Rochester, N.Y.
• Rocky Mountain Steel, Inc., Olathe, Colo.
• Sanpete Steel Corporation, Moroni, Utah
• Schuff Steel Company, Humble, Texas
• Schuff Steel Company, Ottawa, Kan.
• Shure Line Construction, Kenton, Del.
• Steel Fabricators of Monroe, Monroe, La.
• Steel Service Corporation, Jackson, Miss.
• Steel Specialty, Inc., Belmont, N.C.
• Stinger Bridge & Iron, Coolidge, Ariz.
• Stud Welding, Inc., Centerville, Tenn.
• Talley Metal Products, Inc., Hagerstown, Md.
• The Arthur Louis Steel Company, Geneva, Ohio
• The Gateway Company of Missouri LLC, St. Louis
• The Haskell Company, Jacksonville, Fla.
• Tipton Structural Fabrication, Tipton, Iowa
• Tipton Structural Fabrication, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• Triad Fabricators, LLC, Evansville, Ind.
• Trinity Fabricators, Inc., New Albin, Iowa
• Troy Industrial Solutions, Brewer, Maine
• United Weld Services, LLC, York, Pa.
• USA Structural Steel & Foundations, Sarasota, Fla.
• Welding Works, Madison, Conn.
• Zimkor LLC, Littleton, Colo.

Safety Award of Honor (DART=0) – Erection

• AF Steel Fabricators, Chandler, Ariz.
• Black Cat LLC, Cheyenne, Wyo.
• Building Zone Industries, Kanarraville, Utah
• Delta Steel Inc., Saginaw, Mich.
• Derr & Gruenewald Construction, Henderson, Colo.
• Eddy’s Welding, Inc., Ellicott City, Md.
• F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc., Indianapolis
• Fresno Fab-Tech, Inc., Sanger, Calif.
• Gibson Industrial Inc., Richmond, Va.
• Gremp Steel Company, Posen, Ill.
• High Plains Steel Services, LLC, Windsor, Colo.
• Jonquil Steel and Construction Inc., Mableton, Ga.
• Lee’s Imperial Welding Inc, Fremont, Calif.
• McClean Iron Works, Everett, Wash.
• North Alabama Fabricating Company, Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
• Ogeechee Steel, Inc., Swainsboro, Ga.
• Peterson Beckner Industries, Inc., Houston
• Pioneer Erectors, Grand Rapids, Mich.
• Resolute Performance Iron, Inc., Tempe, Ariz.
• Rochester Structural, LLC, Rochester, N.Y.
• Shure Line Construction, Kenton, Del.
• Stinger Bridge & Iron, Coolidge, Ariz.
• Structural Services, Inc., Albuquerque, N.M.
• The Arthur Louis Steel Company, Geneva, Ohio
• United Weld Services, LLC, York, Pa.
• USA Structural Steel & Foundations, Sarasota, Fla.
• XLE Metals Corporation, Prospect Park, Pa.

Safety Award of Merit (0<DART≤1) – Fabrication

• Custom Metals, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Little Rock, Ark.
• Integrated Structural Engineering, LLC, Cedarburg, Wis.
• Prospect Steel, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Little Rock, Ark.
• Schuff Steel Company, Phoenix
• Schuff Steel Company, Bellemont, Ariz.
• Thompson Metal Fab, Inc., Vancouver, Wash.

Safety Award of Merit (0<DART≤1) – Erection

• Davis Erection (Omaha), Gretna, Neb.
• Integrated Structural Engineering, LLC, Cedarburg, Wis.
• Williams Erection Co., LLC, Smyrna, Ga.

Safety Commendation (1<DART≤2) – Fabrication

• Able Steel Fabricators, Inc., Mesa, Ariz.
• Alamo Structural Steel, Victoria, Texas
• Cooper Steel, Shelbyville, Tenn.
• DIS-TRAN Steel, LLC, Pineville, La.
• Garrison Steel Fabricators, Inc., Pell City, Ala.
• Gayle Manufacturing Company, Caldwell, Idaho
• Metal Pros, LLC, Wichita, Kan.
• North Alabama Fabricating Company, Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
• Schuff Steel Company, Stockton, Calif.
• Schuff Steel Company, Eloy, Ariz.
• Schuff Steel Company, Lindon, Utah
• Summit Steel Works Corp, San Jose, Calif.
• Tampa Tank/Florida Structural Steel, Tampa, Fla.
• Thomas Steel, Inc., Bellevue, Ohio
• Western Slope Iron & Supply, Inc., Grand Junction, Colo.

Safety Commendation (1<DART≤2) – Erection

• Cooper Steel, Shelbyville, Tenn.
• Dixie Southern Industrial, Inc., Polk City, Fla.
• Garrison Steel Fabricators, Inc., Pell City, Ala.
• ROC Steel, LLC, Suffolk, Va.
• Stonebridge Inc., South Plainfield, N.J.
• Ideal Contracting, Detroit