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Safety Also, Gray West and Timberwolff saw a really nice drop in their
California rate of .84 to a .62. Statistical information developed
with information accumulated since the end of October shows
that roughly 37% of all incidents were considered “significant”.
with Jim Grant These are the incidents that had the potential to create a serious
Vice President, Safety & Field injury or worse. These incidents are our main focus going into
Operations next year. To reach our goal of everyone getting to go home to
their loved ones at the end of every day, our focus areas for next
As we begin a new year, we want to thank everyone for the year will be in body placement. We have noticed an increase in
tremendous effort put forth in making sure we are doing our best injuries due to poor judgement or training in the positioning of
to keep our projects safe and ensure that everyone that comes to the body when completing tasks. Struck utilities and dropped
work in the morning returns home in the same way they showed materials contributed to many of the significant incidents. During
up. As we look back on the year, Gray saw a slight decrease in the month of September, a very exciting thing happened...we
our recordable incident rate, but we did see a slight increase in actually dropped our Recordable Incident Rate below 1.0, which
our lost time incident rate. Three of the ten lost time incidents is the first time that has happened. Seeing this drop should
could partially be attributed to not reporting the incident timely or motivate and confirm that we can make 2020 a great year if
poor case management, and one lost time resulted from a non- we are all focused on putting safety first, and remembering that
construction related incident. Had we avoided these four injuries we are all responsible for setting a strong safety culture and
we would have observed a 26% decrease in lost time injuries, influencing the industry. Thanks for a great year!
2 putting our lost time incident rate at an all-time low of .15 when
compared to the same timeframe last year, but with significantly
higher man-hours than years past. Congratulations to everyone RIR LTIR Man-hours
and thank you for living our core values! Please take a look at the
graphic at right to view a historical look at where we stand at the 2017 2.52 .34 5,217,414
end of 2019.
Gray Inc. also saw a slight drop in our EMR from .52 to .51. 2019 1.72 .17 4,638,565
Even though this is a small drop, the best EMR the company 2019 1.39 .21 9,336,147
could obtain would have been a .49, so we’re just a little off
of being as good as we can be, so keep up the great work. 2019 U.S. Rates 3.6 1.2

Safety Personal Commitment

Statistics to Safety

All statistics reported for Gray are cumulative for Calendar Year 2019

1 Fatality Zach Whitmer
Specialist, Risk Management
Majors
0 (Disabling Accidents) 3 years, 8 months with Gray

Recordable Accident
67 (Off Work, Limited Work,
and No Lost Time)

337 167 “Danger and risk are around every corner. Every single
thing we do throughout our daily lives can impact not
Near Miss / Property Damage First Aid / Injury but not recordable only our own safety, but the safety of those around
us. Gray’s Safety 6 really impacted the way I approach
scenarios from simply driving from point A to point
A goal of zero lost time incidents means there is a level of acceptance of B, to working around my apartment. I take Go Fever
other types of incidents that do not lead to lost time. When other incidents are
accepted, then we increase the chance that lost time, and more severe incidents very seriously ... nothing is important enough to put
will occur. The triangle graphic above is an illustration of this. Gray’s focus is to myself and others at risk, which is also why I hold
stop all incidents, by starting at the very bottom of the triangle. If we eliminate accountability to such a high standard. It’s easy to
all incidents, then we eliminate the possibility of the catastrophic incident. By rush through things; it’s not always easy to stop and
definition, a lost time incident is an injury event that causes a worker to miss at think about the safest and most efficient way to do
least one day of work. A safety incident is any event that needs to be tracked and things. But it’s the right thing to do. ALWAYS take the
recorded regardless of whether medical attention was required or not.
time to stop and think before you act.”