NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
AWARD
TO
ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION
ECUSTA PAPER DIVISION. PISGAH FCHIEST. NORTH CARCH-INA
SECOND PLACE
GROUP A. PULP » PAPER MHXS DIVISK»i
PAPER INDUSTRY SAFETY CONTEST
JANUARY 1. 1951-DK2MBER 31. mi
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.NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
The A-W-A-R-D shown above, as well as the
PENNANT over on the right, are forms of rec
ognition that every member of the PAPER DI
VISION should be justly proud of.
When the Paper Division became a member of
the National Safety Council in 1941, it immedi
ately entered the yearly Safety Contest conducted
by them for pulp and paper mills throughout the
United States and Canada. Group "A”, as shown
on the above AWARD, consists of 55 such mills
who have 750 or more employees, and it is in
deed gratifying to have obtained SECOND
PLACE in this contest for the year 1951.
It would be impossible to single out and pay
tribute to any one person or group of persons for
having established such a record, so we wish to
say WELL DONE to every individual on the
payroll of the Paper Division. Without the co
operation that has been manifested by supervision
and employees alike in our over-all accident pre
vention program, such recognition would not have
been forthcoming.
The standings in the yearly Safety Contest are
based on the American Standards Association
Code for judging disabling injuries, and this
means that all permanent partial disabilities are
classified as lost time accidents. Even though we
were charged with four lost time cases during
1951 as a result of the above Code, we actually
experienced two lost time accidents that resulted
in a total of 24 days’ loss of time away from work.
The frequency rate of disabling injuries for
1951 showed a 55.5% reduction over the year
1950, and this reduction represented a great de
crease in suffering and loss of wages to our per
sonnel. Surely the efforts extended by everyone
concerned in helping to eliminate the two items
mentioned above were more than justified.
Your manifested acceptance of the fact that
SAFETY IS EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS will, no
doubt, contribute to our establishing even better
safety records in future years.
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