Four companies were recognized recently with a Governor's Safety Award of Excellence for their worker health and safety programs:
• Alaska Tanker Co., the company that sails BP's oil from Valdez, had 18 recordable injury cases in more than 4.8 million work hours from 2005-07, a rate 83 percent below industry averages. Alaska Tanker had three days away/restricted/transfer cases, 96 percent below industry averages, the Labor Department said.
• Dunkin & Bush Inc., an industrial coating and painting contractor in Kenai, had one recordable illness and injury in more than 138,000 work hours over the last three years. That was 64 percent below industry averages.
• Horizon Lines' Kodiak Terminal operated at an injury level below the Bureau of Labor Standards rates during the period of 2006-2008.
• Shaw Infrastructure Inc., a global engineering and construction business with an office in Anchorage, had one recordable injury/illness case in more than 273,000 work hours from 2005-07 -- 88 percent below the industry average. In addition.....
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