In-Grain - GEAPS

Safety AwardsGEAPS Honors 27 Companies ForOutstanding Performance In SafetyOMAHA, NEB. — GEAPS honored 27 companies at Exchange 2008 for their outstanding safetyrecords last year. The companies, representing 387 separate grain facilities, recorded nearly 13.1 millionemployee hours without a work-related lost-time injury or illness during 2007.Kevin Danner, chairman of the joint GEAPS-NGFA Joint Committee on Safety, Health &Environmental Quality, presided over the safety awards program, held at the Exchange banquetFeb. 26.“I cannot overemphasize the fact these awards recognize commitment, knowledge, dedicationand skill,” he said.The list (below) indicates companies and the number of their facilities that did not record a work-relatedlost-time injury or illness last year.Companies Honored For Excellence In SafetyAgrex, Inc., 2 facilitiesThe Andersons, 9Bunge North America, 69Cargill AgHorizons, 101Cargill Argentina, 5Cargill Canada, 55Cargill de Mexico, 4Cargill Grain & Oilseeds, 5Cargill Sweeteners, 1CHS Inc., 1CLD Pacific Grain, 4Consolidated Grain & Barge, 5Coors Brewing Company, 4Farmers Co-op Company, 9Farmers Grain Terminal , 9General Mills Inc., 5Latty Grain Ltd. 1Perdue Agri Business, 32Safety AwardsRiceland Foods, 20The Scoular Co., 23South Dakota Wheat Growers, 1Star of the West Milling, 6Structural Restoration, 1Tate & Lyle Grain, 1West Central Co-op, 12Wind River Grain LLC, 1Zeeland Farm Services, 1Extended records of AchievementGEAPS also honored companies andfacilities with extended records of achievementin safety. One of the awards went tothe top five facilities, measured through theyears in terms of cumulative hours withouta lost-time injury or illness. Winners honoredat the Exchange were:• Cargill Grain & Oilseeds facility inWestwego, La.• The Bunge Milling facility in Atchison, Kan.• The Anderson’s facility in Champaign, Ill.• Bunge North America, Danville• Cargill AgHorizons in East St. Louis, Ill.Honors in another category—the topfive facilities in terms of consecutive yearsthey’ve received a GEAPS safety award—went to:1. Bunge North America’s DeSoto Landingfacility in Arkansas City, Ark. – 29 years2. Bunge North America’s Fountain Blufffacility in Grand Tower, Ill. – 25 years:3. Cargill Inc.’s facility in Tipton, Ind. – 22years4. Four facilities each had 21 years withouta lost-time work-related injury or illness.They are: Bunge North America’sHuffman facility in Blytheville, Ky.;Bunge North America’s facility inHickman, Ark.; Bunge North America’sfacility in Yazoo City, Miss.; and BungeNorth America’s facility in LaGrange,Mo.5. The Bunge North America facility inPoplar Bluff, Mo. – 20 years.26 – GEAPS In-Grain | March 2008Agrex IncFountain Bluff 25 *NebraskaFultonEnola 12Harrisburg 17SuperiorHomerRidgwayThe Andersons18ShawneetownIllinois6Champaign 16 +IndianaDecaturIndianaIndianapolisClymersMorristownDelphiDunkirk 8WaterlooKansasMichiganAlbion 12Atchison +White Pigeon 8EmporiaKentuckyOhioHickmanEdwin21 *Metamora 5OwensboroLouisianaReynoldsBook 8Bunge North AmericaDestrehanAlbertaDestrehan OPDFt SaskatchewanGoodrich Landing 5ArkansasJonesville 5Augusta 9Lake Providence 6Clarendon 17MermentauDes Arc 16St JosephDeSoto Landing 29 *Tallulah A 18Helena 5Tallulah Port 5Huffman 21 *Vidalia 9Linwood 10ManitobaNewport 19AltonaOsceola 11HarrowbyPine Bluff 6MissouriSt CharlesCaruthersvilleIowaEast Hannibal 9Council Bluffs 6LaGrange 21 *Council BluffsLinda 6(Oil Processing)Poplar Bluff 20 *McGregor 8MississippiMeekers Landing 5Greenville 12IllinoisHurricane Point 9Albany 13Mayersville 6Allerton 8Vicksburg 6Catlin 5Yazoo City 21 *Dale 14NebraskaDanville + Brownville 14CreteStella 14OhioCincinnatiDelphosMarionOntarioHamiltonSaskatchewanNipawinTennesseeBoothspoint 14Heliose 8Memphis 9CLD Pacific GrainIdahoLewistonWashingtonBurbankLoMo 5Windust 5CHS IncMinnesotaSavageCargill AgHorizonsColoradoBurlington 8Byers 5Cheyenne Wells 12Limon 8IowaBuffalo 5Council Bluffs 6Dubuque 5Hamburg 6Muscatine 5New Sharon 5IllinoisBeardstown 5BroctonCarmargoEast St Louis 7 +FilsonFlorence 5www.geaps.com