PWC Employees Work Two Million Hours
with No Lost Time Injuries
Commissioner of Labor to Present Award October 27 in Fayetteville

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October 22, 2007

Employees of the Public Works Commission reached a new safety milestone on October 5, 2007 as they worked over two million work hours with no lost-time injuries.  PWC’s last lost-time injury was January 31, 2006.  PWC employees have reached the one million hour mark four times in the last 10 years but have never surpassed two million hours.

North Carolina Commissioner of Labor, Cherie Berry, will visit Fayetteville on Saturday, October 27 to present PWC employees the recognition for the safety accomplishment.  It is her second visit this year as she honored PWC employees in January for reaching the one million safe hours worked.

PWC’s attention to safety has been recognized annually with our workers earning state-wide and national safety recognition. 

For the 19th consecutive year, PWC received the North Carolina Department of Labor “Safety Achievement Award”.  The award is earned for an accident incident rate that is less than half of the state-wide average for public utilities and PWC has earned the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Electric Utility Safety Award for safety operating practices for 17 consecutive years.

Employees of PWC’s Butler-Warner Generation Plant were recognized in 2005 for reaching the milestone of “One Million Employee Hours Worked” with no disabling injuries.  The last lost-time injury at the facility occurred in 1989. 

Over the last 10 years, PWC employees have worked over 13 million hours.  PWC has 568 employees who daily enter confined spaces, work around electrical voltages up to 230,000 volts, dig trenches over 20 feet deep, handle hazardous chemicals, and drive an average of over 7,000 miles every day.

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