March 3, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHICAGO – The American Institute of Steel Construction is pleased to recognize more than 70 steel fabricators and erectors for their outstanding safety records in 2021.

Most of this year’s winners have earned the Institute's top safety award, the Safety Award of Honor, which is presented for a perfect record of no disabling injuries (DART=0--see below for more info about DART data).

"AISC's annual Safety Awards program recognizes excellent records of safety performance, and we commend these facilities for their effective accident prevention programs," said Tom Schlafly, AISC's director of safety. "Periodic recognition of safety in the workplace has been demonstrated to provide worker incentive and a reminder of the importance of safe practices."

In order to facilitate data collection and make statistics meaningful in terms familiar to safety professionals, AISC's Safety Awards program uses data that companies also report to OSHA as measured in terms of Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) rate. The DART measures the number of recordable lost work cases per 200,000 man hours worked. AISC bases the awards on cases (not days) as reported to OSHA on the 300A form, along with the hours worked in the year.

AISC presents a Safety Award of Honor to fabricators and erectors with perfect records (a DART of zero). Those with excellent records (0<DART≤1) earn a Safety Award of Merit, and Safety Commendations recognize companies with DARTs greater than one and less than or equal to two.

The awards program is open to all AISC member fabricators and erectors, and applications for the program are solicited annually. Awards are issued separately for fabrication and erection companies. In order to be eligible to win an award, the member company must submit a copy of their OSHA 300A form for verification purposes.

To learn more about the awards, visit aisc.org/safetyawards. For more information and resources on safety for the fabricated and erected structural steel industry, visit aisc.org/safety.

Safety Award of Honor (DART = 0) - Fabrication

• Associated Steel Fabricators, Inc., Tomball, Texas
• Ben Hur Steel Worx, LLC, St. Louis
• BENCHMARK Fabricated Steel, Terre Haute, Ind.
• Center Point Contractors, Inc., Bentonville, Ark.
• Champion Bridge Company, Wilmington, Ohio
• Covenant Steel Warehouse, Inc., Dothan, Ala.
• Custom Metals, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Little Rock, Ark.
• Design Build Structures, LLC, Peosta, Iowa
• Dixie Southern Industrial, Inc., Polk City, Fla.
• Douglas Steel Fabricating Corporation, Lansing, Mich.
• East Coast Metal Structures, Corp., Riviera Beach, Fla.
• Eddy's Welding, Inc., Ellicott City, Md,
• F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc., Indianapolis
• Gayle Manufacturing Company, Caldwell, Idaho
• Geiger & Peters, Inc., Indianapolis
• George's Welding Services, Inc., Miami
• Gerace Construction Co., Inc., Midland, Mich
• Industrial Resources, Inc., Fairmont, W.V.
• J.R. Hoe and Sons, Middlesboro, Ky.
• Kienlen Constructors, St. Louis
• Larwel Industries, Bedford, Texas
• Lyndon Steel Company, Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Maccabee Industrial Inc., Belle Vernon, Pa.
• McPeak Supply, LLC, Roanoke, Va.
• Mike Owen Fabrication, Inc., Bakersfield, Calif.
• Miscellaneous Steel Industries, Inc., Kyle, Texas
• Mobil Steel International, Inc., Houston
• Newport Industrial Fabrication, Inc., Newport, Maine
• NOVA Group, Inc., Napa, Calif.
• PAX, LLC., Gonzales, La.
• Phoenix Fabrication & Supply, Inc., Peotone, Ill.
• Pikes Peak Steel LLC, Colorado Springs, Colo.
• Prospect Steel, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Little Rock, Ark.
• RCC Fabricators, Inc., Paterson, N.J.
• Rens Welding & Fabricating, Inc., Taunton, Mass.
• Rochester Rigging & Erectors, Inc., Bloomfield, N.Y.
• Rochester Structural, LLC, Rochester, N.Y.
• Schuff Steel Midwest, Overland Park, KS
• Scott Steel Services, Inc., Crown Point, Ind.
• Shure Line Construction, Kenton, Del.
• Southwest Steel LLC, Henderson, Nev.
• Steel Service Corporation, Jackson, Miss.
• Steel Specialty, Inc., Belmont, N.C.
• Structural Steel & Plate Fabrication, Co., North Salt Lake, Utah
• Systems Fab & Machine, Inc., El Dorado, Ark.
• The Arthur Louis Steel Company, Geneva, Ohio
• The Gateway Company of Missouri LLC, St. Louis
• The Haskell Company, Jacksonville, Fla.
• TrueNorth Steel, Fargo, N.D.
• Twin Brothers Marine, LLC, Morgan City, La.
• United Weld Services, LLC, York, Pa.
• Universal Steel of NC, LLC, Thomasville, N.C.
• Western Slope Iron & Supply, Inc., Grand Junction, Colo.
• Zimkor LLC, Littleton, Colo.

Safety Award of Honor (DART=0) - Erection

• Diversified Metalworks, Orange, Calif.
• Dixie Southern Industrial, Inc., Polk City, Fla.
• East Coast Metal Structures, Corp., Riviera Beach, Fla.
• F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc., Indianapolis
• Ideal Contracting, Detroit
• Kienlen Constructors, St. Louis
• National Steel City, LLC, Plymouth, Mich.
• North Alabama Fabricating Company, Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
• Rens Welding & Fabricating, Inc., Taunton, Mass.
• ROC Steel, LLC, Suffolk, Va.
• Rochester Structural, LLC, Rochester, N.Y.
• Shure Line Construction, Kenton, Del.
• Systems Fab & Machine, Inc., El Dorado, Ark.
• The Arthur Louis Steel Company, Geneva, Ohio
• United Weld Services, LLC, York, Pa.

Safety Award of Merit (0<DART≤1) - Fabrication

• Corebrace, LLC, West Jordan, Utah
• DIS-TRAN Steel, LLC, Pineville, La.
• Jesse Engineering Company, Tacoma, Wash.
• Metal Pros, LLC, Wichita, Kan.
• North Alabama Fabricating Company, Inc., Birmingham, Ala.
• Prospect Steel, a Division of Lexicon, Inc., Armorel, Ark.
• Schuff Steel Company, Eloy, Ariz.
• SME Steel Contractors, Inc., West Jordan, Utah
• Transco Ind., Inc., Portland, Ore.
• Veritas Steel, Palatka, Fla.

Safety Award of Merit (0<DART≤1) - Erection

• Ben Hur Steel Worx, LLC, St. Louis
• Derr & Gruenewald, LLC, Henderson, Colo.
  SME Steel Contractors, Inc., West Jordan, Utah
• Southwest Steel LLC, Henderson, Nev.

Safety Commendation (1<DART≤2) - Fabrication

• Ford Steel, LLC, Porter, Texas
• Johnson Machine Works, Inc., Chariton, Iowa
• JPW Structural Contracting, Inc., Syracuse, N.Y.
• Padgett, Inc., New Albany, Ind.
• Schuff Steel Company, Phoenix, Ariz.
• Steel Fabricators of Monroe, Monroe, La.
• Steward Steel, Inc., Sikeston, Mo.

Safety Commendation (1<DART≤2) - Erection

• Padgett, Inc., New Albany, Ind.