Crowley scores safety record.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: MARINE TERMINAL

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Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Bethel petroleum terminal employees recently marked a safety record by completing 570 days without lost-time injury. The record tops the group's previous high mark.

Crowley's Bethel employees have been working for nearly two years as the first marine terminal to participate in the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Strategic Partnership. Crowley's petroleum distribution group in Alaska joined the partnership agreement with OSHA and the United Steel Workers Local 4959 in March 2008. Since the agreement was formed with Crowley's Bethel and Nome terminal operations...