AISC Names 2020 Safety Award Winners

CHICAGO – The American Institute of Steel Construction is pleased to recognize more than 135 steel fabricators and erectors for their outstanding safety records in 2020.

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).

“2020 really underscored the importance of safety. These awards are a powerful reminder of what truly makes our industry great: the people,” said Patrick Schueck, president and CEO of Lexicon, Inc., and chair of AISC’s Safety Committee. “AISC is proud to honor the companies that go the extra mile to keep their employees safe every day.”

In order to facilitate data collection and make statistics meaningful in terms familiar to safety professionals, AISC’s Safety Awards program uses data that companies also report to OSHA as measured in terms of Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) rate. 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.

Those with excellent records (0<DART≤1) earn a Safety Award of Merit. 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.

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

Safety Award of Honor – Fabrication

• Cooper Steel of Virginia, Monroe, Va.
• Alamo Structural Steel, Waco, Texas
• Arcosa Traffic Structures, Sumterville, Fla.
• Aristeo, Livonia, Mich.
• B & B Welding Company, Inc., Fort Howard, Md.
• Ben Hur Steel Worx, LLC, St. Louis, Mo.
• BENCHMARK Fabricated Steel, Terre Haute, Ind.
• Blue Atlantic Fabricators, LLC, East Boston, Mass.
• Broome Welding & Machine Co., Galveston, Texas
• Center Point Contractors, Inc., Bentonville, Ark.
• Central Minnesota Fab., Inc. (CMF), Willmar, Minn.
• Charleston Steel Company, Dunbar, W.V.
• Cianbro Fabrication & Coating Corporation, Pittsfield, Maine
• Con-Fab Welding Inc. dba Con-Fab Engineering & Welding, Shreveport, La.
• Cooper Steel, Shelbyville, Tenn.
• Cooper Steel South LLC, Childersburg, Ala.
• Custom Fabrications and Coatings, Granite City, Ill.
• Dixie Southern Industrial, Inc., Polk City, Fla.
• Doherty Steel, Paola, Kansas
• Eastpointe Industries LLC, Muskogee, OK
• Eddy’s Welding, Inc., Ellicott City, Md.
• Extreme Precision Industrial Contractors, Gillette, Wyo.
• Fabco Metal Products, Daytona Beach, Fla.
• Fiedeldey Steel Fabricators, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
• G2 Metal Fab, Inc., Livermore, Calif.
• Garbe Iron Works, Inc., Aurora, Ill.
• GEM Ind, Inc., Cocoa, Fla.
• George Steel Fabricating, Inc., Lebanon, Ohio
• Gibson Industrial Inc., Richmond, Va.
• GMF Industries, Inc., Lakeland, Fla.
• Grunau Metals, Chicago, Ill.
• High Plains Steel Services, LLC, Windsor, Colo.
• Industrial Resources, Inc., Fairmont, W.V.
• J.R. Hoe and Sons, Middlesboro, Ky.
• Jimco Sales & Manufacturing, Fort Worth, Texas
• Larwel Industries, Bedford, Texas
• Lyndon Steel Company, Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Maccabee Industrial Inc., Belle Vernon, Pa.
• Martin Iron Works, Inc., Reno, Nev.
• McPeak Supply, LLC, Roanoke, Va.
• Metal Solutions, Ault, Colo.
• Mike Owen Fabrication, Inc., Bakersfield, Calif.
• Mobil Steel International, Inc., Houston, Texas
• Moore & Morford, Inc., Greensburg, Pa.
• NMich. Industrial Holdings Inc., Sacramento, Calif.
• NOVa. Group, Inc., Napa, Calif.
• PAX, LLC., Gonzales, La.
• Pederson Bros., Inc., Bellingham, Wash.
• Phoenix Fabrication & Supply, Inc., Peotone, Ill.
• Phoenix Manufacturing, LLC, Glasgow, Mo.
• Pikes Peak Steel LLC, Colorado Springs, Colo.
• RCC Fabricators, Inc., Southampton, N.J.
• Red Dog Fabrication, LLC, Vancouver, Wash.
• Reno Iron Works, Reno, Nev.
• Richardson Steel, Inc., Spring Valley, Calif.
• Rochester Structural, LLC, Rochester, N.Y.
• S.W. Funk Industrial Contractors, Inc., Chester, Va.
• Sanford Steel Corp., Goldston, N.C.
• Sanpete Steel Corporation, Moroni, Utah
• Scott Steel Services, Inc., Crown Point, Ind.
• Sefton Steel, LP, Aldine, Texas
• Shure Line Construction, Kenton, Del.
• SSOE, Inc., Toledo, Ohio
• Steel Service Corporation, Jackson, Miss.
• Steward Steel, Inc., Sikeston, Mo.
• Structural Steel & Plate Fabrication, Co., North Salt Lake, Utah
• Summit Industrial Construction, Alpharetta, Ga.
• Summit Steel Works Corp, San Jose, Calif.
• Systems Fab & Machine, Inc., El Dorado, Ark.
• Talley Metal Products, Inc., Hagerstown, Md.
• The Arthur Louis Steel Company, Geneva, Ohio
• The Gateway Company of Missouri LLC, St. Louis, Mo.
• Trinity Fabricators, Inc., New Albin, Iowa
• TrueNorth Steel, Mandan, N.D.
• Turner Construction Company, Huntsville, Ala.
• Twin Brothers Marine, LLC, Morgan City, La.
• USNC, LLC, Thomasville, N.C.
• Veritas Steel, Palatka, Fla.
• Zimkor LLC, Littleton, Colo.

Safety Award of Honor – Erection

• Black Cat LLC, Cheyenne, Wyo.
• Center Point Contractors, Inc., Bentonville, Ark.
• Cooper Steel, Shelbyville, Tenn.
• Extreme Precision Industrial Contractors, Gillette, Wyo.
• GEM Ind, Inc., Cocoa, Fla.
• Gibson Industrial Inc., Richmond, Va.
• GMF Industries, Inc., Lakeland, Fla.
• High Plains Steel Services, LLC, Windsor, Colo.
• Hillsdale Fabricators, a Division of Alberici Constructors, St. Louis, Mo.
• Martin Iron Works, Inc., Reno, Nev.
• Metal Pros, LLC, Wichita, Kansas
• North Alabama Fabricating Company, Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
• Reno Iron Works, Reno, Nev.
• Richardson Steel, Inc., Spring Valley, Calif.
• Rochester Rigging & Erectors, Inc., Bloomfield, N.Y.
• Rochester Structural, LLC, Rochester, N.Y.
• Shure Line Construction, Kenton, Del.
• SunSteel, LLC, Sunnyside, Wash.
• Turner Construction Company, Huntsville, Ala.

Safety Award of Merit – Fabrication

• DIS-TRAN Steel, LLC, Pineville, La.
• Prospect Steel, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Armorel, Ark.
• Prospect Steel, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Little Rock, Ark.
• Schuff Steel – Atlantic, LLC, Phoenix, Ariz.
• SunSteel, LLC, Sunnyside, Wash.

Safety Award of Merit – Erection

• Aristeo, Livonia, Mich.
• Ideal Contracting, Detroit, Mich.
• Stonebridge Inc., South Plainfield, N.J.

Safety Commendation – Fabrication

• AIW, Inc., Hyattsville, Md.
• Alamo Structural Steel, Victoria, Texas
• Dave Steel Company Inc., Asheville, N.C.
• Ducworks, Inc., Logan, UT
• Ford Steel, LLC, Porter, Texas
• Gayle Manufacturing Company, Caldwell, Idaho
• Geiger & Peters, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.
• High Steel Structures LLC, Lancaster, Pa.
• Jesse Engineering Company, Tacoma, Wash.
• Kwan Wo Ironworks, Inc., San Francisco, Calif.
• Metal Pros, LLC, Wichita, Kansas
• Milton Steel Company, Milton, Pa.
• North Alabama Fabricating Company, Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
• Padgett, Inc., New Albany, Ind.
• Schuff Steel Company, Stockton, Calif.
• Shickel Corporation, Bridgewater, Va.
• Tampa Tank Inc./Florida Structural Steel, Gibsonton, Fla.
• TrueNorth Steel, Rapid City, S.D.
• Universal Steel, Inc., Lithonia, Ga.
• Western Slope Iron & Supply, Inc., Grand Junction, Colo.

Safety Commendation – Erection

• AIW, Inc., Hyattsville, Md.
• Doherty Steel, Paola, Kansas
• Golden State Bridge, Inc., Benicia, Calif.
• Kwan Wo Ironworks, Inc., San Francisco, Calif.

About the American Institute of Steel Construction

The American Institute of Steel Construction, headquartered in Chicago, is a non-partisan, not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel-related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, market development, and advocacy. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry of providing timely and reliable information.

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