Award For
Outstanding
Safety
Performance
Free barbecue dinner was served to all employees of the Sheet
Finishing Mill an an award for fine safety record. Here, Carolyn
Shelton, a pillow case sewer, opens drink at a vending machine.
As employees lined up to be ,
in which he thanked the eu
work together to prevent accid®
Sheet Finishing Barbecue
Employees of the Sheet Finishing Mill have worked over a half-million man-hours
without a lost-time accident. The record as of December 31, 1966, showed that the
Sheet Finishing Mill had accumulated 583,746 accident-free hours since the last dis
abling injury occurred on January 26, 1966.
In recognition of their fine record, the company gave the employees a free barbecue
dinner served in the mill. This award was under terms of the safety contest at Field-
crest in which the company gives a barbecue dinner at any mill which operates an
average of 2,000 hours per employee without lost time due to injury.
Prior to the serving of the barbecue, J. S. Chowning, Sheet Finishing Mill super
intendent, made a brief talk in which he thanked the employees for “a safety job
weU done” and urged them to set a new goal to continue their perfect record through
out 1967.
“Let me thank all of you for your cooperation in working in a safe manner as well
as reporting safety hazards to your supervisor. It has been this cooperation which has
obtained this excellent safety record,” Mr. Chowning said.
In commenting on the record, K. R. Baggett, Fieldcrest safety director, praised the
“fine attitude and safety consciousness” of the Sheet Finishing employees and urged
their continued cooperation in the prevention of accidents.
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Linda Morgan, Katie Kennon, Ma^®
Enjoying barbecue won by their mill’s excellent safety record and using truck for table. In another group enjoying j
from left to right, below, are Vera Dalton, Ruth Burroughs and Myrtle Brooks, all folders, left to right, Minnie Sims, Hath®