NCDOL Honors Brasfield & Gorrie for Safety Excellence

June 16, 2014

Company Receives Two Safety Awards from NCDOL

Raleigh, N.C. (June 16, 2014) – Brasfield & Gorrie today announced that the company received two awards for outstanding safety achievements from the North Carolina Department of Labor (NCDOL) during an awards ceremony on June 6, 2014, in Raleigh, N.C.
Brasfield & Gorrie’s Raleigh office received the NCDOL’s Second Consecutive Year Gold Award. This award is presented to companies that achieve Days Away, Restricted, and Transfer (DART) case rates that are at least 50 percent below the statewide rate for their respective industries for two consecutive years.

The company also received a One Million Employee Hours award, which recognizes companies that achieve one million man-hours with no lost-time workplace accidents.
“These awards are a testament to Brasfield & Gorrie’s pursuit of safety excellence,” said Brasfield & Gorrie Corporate Safety Director Troy Ogden. “Our achievement of low DART rates and one million man-hours with no lost-time accidents reflects our commitment to achieving injury-free work sites for our employees, clients and associates.”

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About Brasfield & Gorrie
Celebrating 50 years in business, Brasfield & Gorrie is one of the nation’s largest privately held construction firms, providing general contracting, design-build, and construction management services for a wide variety of markets, including healthcare, commercial, institutional, federal, municipal, industrial, infrastructure, and water/wastewater treatment. We serve clients from offices in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina. Brasfield & Gorrie has approximately 2,600 employees, and its 2013 revenues were $2.3 billion. Engineering News-Record ranks Brasfield & Gorrie 22nd among the nation’s “Top 400 Contractors” for 2014.