Fru-Con Team Achieves Remarkable Zero Lost-Time Injuries in 2009

Fru-Con team members have continued to attain outstanding safety records in 2009. Fru-Con has had zero lost-time injuries this year. This is nothing short of outstanding!

Teams at our New Design and Flat Branch projects remain recordable injury-free. Under the leadership of Joe Duffy, Brad Smith and team, the New Design project has logged more than 250,000 hours without a recordable injury. The Flat Branch team has exceeded 50,000 hours without a recordable injury. In the past three months, we have experienced only one minor injury – a cut finger.

The Arlington 7A team has significantly improved its performance with only three first-aid injuries in the past three months.

Safety excellence is a team effort that starts with our executive management and streams throughout the company. Two years ago, following the reorganization of Fru-Con, we had an opportunity that many mature companies do not have – to positively affect our corporate culture. Our success at these efforts is most visible in our safety results. Consider what has happened to our Recordable Injury Rate since 2007 (chart at left). Our reduction in injuries over the past five years is clearly visible in two graphs (below). These vast improvements do not happen by accident.

Let's keep our safety efforts in the forefront of how we do our work every day. We want every person at Fru-Con to go home at the end of the day in exactly the same condition as he or she arrived – only tired from putting in a good day’s effort! Thank you for all you do to safeguard your own health and to care for your co-workers’ safety as well.

Fru-Con Holding Company’s total recordable injury rate, which tracks the number of injuries requiring medical attention and work restrictions for each 100 employees, has shown a positive and consistent descent since 2007.

With five years of concerted effort, Fru-Con has reduced its total incident rate (injuries requiring medical attention and work restrictions per 100 persons) to about one-quarter of the original incident rate.

The Fru-Con Workers’ Compensation claims rate, which equals the number of medical-only injuries per 100 employees, has steadily improved in the same five-year span, surpassing goals through total team dedication.