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COMPANY OVERVIEW

The Pinnacle of Safety

Tennessee Team Earns Top Industry Honor as One of the Safest Mines in the Country

The East Division’s Chattanooga Quarry, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was awarded the National Mining Association’s
Sentinels of Safety Award. This award recognizes coal and mineral mining operations in 10 categories for recording the
most hours in a calendar year without a single lost-time injury. A minimum of 4,000 hours is required for award
consideration. Initiated in 1925 by then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, a former mining engineer, the Sentinels of
Safety Award program remains the nation’s most prestigious recognition of mine safety and has helped foster a strong
safety commitment on the part of U.S. mines.

Mark Brown, Chattanooga’s plant manager, has been in
the mining industry since 1984 and says winning the
award is the pinnacle of his career. Though thrilled to be
leading a Sentinels of Safety team, he’s quick to take a
back seat, preferring instead to recognize the men and
women who drive the site’s success.

“With a mixture of experience and enthusiasm, the team
balances perfectly between tried-and-true methods and a
willingness to experiment,” Brown says. As a result
Chattanooga has been increasingly productive while going
more than five years without a reportable incident.

“The most important thing we do is communicate,” Brown
says. “We have tailgate meetings in the morning and it just
goes down the line. We talk before, during and after each
job. If you’re in the pit, you’ll hear the radio chatter going
on. It’s a little communication, but it’s important. It tells
you that everyone is looking out for one another.”

Mechanic Sean Barry, a safety mentor at Chattanooga,
says that in addition to maintaining safety, the team’s high
The East Division’s Chattanooga
level of communication results in a great deal of education,
Quarry, in Chattanooga, which is equally important.

Tennessee, was awarded the “There are questions here every day and if I can’t handle
them, we have about a half-dozen others who can,” he
National Mining Association’s says. “We work through it together. It’s a round-robin
approach. If you’re in mining and you think you know it all,
Sentinels of Safety Award. or have seen it all, then you’re in the wrong business.”

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