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ISTC Selects Deep South for Top Honors
Posted: 05/23/2018
The Industrial Safety Training Council (ISTC), a 501(c)3 Non-Profit training and education organization, recently honored Deep South with 3 awards – Safety Achievement Award, Recordable Incidence Rate; Safety Achievement Award, Years Worked; Safety Achievement Award, Hours Worked. Deep South achieved a 62% reduction in total recordable incidence rate during 2017 as compared to the average incidence rate for the three previous calendar years, worked one year without an OSHA lost workday case, and worked over 1 million hours without an OSHA lost workday case.
In addition, ISTC selected Deep South Crane & Rigging as a finalist for its prestigious 2018 Roy Comeaux Safety Excellence Through Training Award. The award recognizes the excellent record of safety operations attained by the contractors working in the petroleum, refining and petrochemical manufacturing industries and related services of Southeast Texas.
As a finalist, Deep South demonstrated superior levels of consistent safety performance and safety training efforts for its employees including a recordable incidence rate of 1.0 or better.
After receiving the honors, Mitch Landry, President of Deep South, stated how special this particular safety award is to him, adding, “Roy was a colleague and friend that I admired. We’re honored to be considered as a finalist in this category given in his honor.”
The awards were presented at ISTC’s 22nd Annual Safety Awards Banquet May 17, 2018 in Beaumont, Texas.
Chemical Plant Expansion Gets Big Lift from Deep South
Posted:05/15/2018
The Deep South team was hard at work at the Geismar Chemical Plant in Louisiana. Read on to see how are talented crews are using cranes, transporters, and jacking solutions to help construct the largest alpha olefins production facility in the world.
Deep South Crane Performance Earns GBRIA Safety Recognition
Posted:04/26/2018
The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance (GBRIA) recently awarded Deep South Crane first place in the Crane & Rigging category at GBRIA’s 2018 Contractor Safety Excellence Awards on Thursday, March 15th. Eligibility for the awards is based on nominations by GBRIA members, who submit their highest performing contractors for consideration. For the 22ndannual competition, Deep South Crane and Rigging was nominated by Axiall/Westlake Chemical.