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GREENVILLE, N.C. (August 3, 2011)
– NACCO Materials Handling Group (NMHG),
the makers of HysterŽ and YaleŽ lift
trucks, is a star. The company received
the prestigious Carolina Star Safety
Award at an awards ceremony on Tuesday
hosted by the North Carolina Department
of Labor.
In order to qualify, a company needs to
pass an initial assessment to prove that
their facilities are a safe, healthy and
productive work environment. The
following six elements constitute the
Carolina Star’s SEE & ACT requirements:
- Statistics
- Everyone’s commitment
- Employee Involvement
- Analyze hazards
- Control risks
- Training
As the latest recipient of the
esteemed Carolina Star Safety Award,
NMHG joins a select group of 135 North
Carolina sites.
“NMHG would like to express our
gratitude to the North Carolina
Department of Labor and Pitt County
Chamber of Commerce,” said John
Gardiner, general manager Americas
Manufacturing, NMHG. “We are incredibly
honored and humbled to be named a
Carolina Star Safety Award recipient and
join the ranks of Kimberly-Clarke,
Pfizer, Frito-Lay and Georgia Pacific,
to name a few. It has been a wonderful
year of safety milestones for our
company, and we couldn’t have done it
without our dedicated employees.”
In addition to receiving the Carolina
Star Safety Award at the ceremony, NMHG
was honored with the North Carolina
Department of Labor Million-Hour Safety
Award and Gold Safety Award for the
seventh consecutive year.
Million-Hour Safety Awards are given to
firms that accumulate one million
employee hours with no case of injury or
illness involving days away from work.
Last year, NMHG reached three-million
hours without a lost time accident in
its Greenville, N.C., facility. Gold
Safety Awards include cases of days away
from work, restricted activity or job
transfer.
A world leader in the lift truck
industry, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc.
(NMHG) designs, engineers, manufactures,
sells and services a comprehensive line
of lift trucks and aftermarket parts
marketed globally under the HysterŽ and
YaleŽ brand names. Headquartered in
Cleveland, Ohio, NMHG employs
approximately 4,500 people worldwide and
is a wholly owned subsidiary of NACCO
Industries, Inc. (NYSE: NC).
For more information, please contact:
Brett Turner
Jackson Marketing Group
864-272-3014
Brett.Turner@JacksonMG.com
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