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OUR SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH
Sustainability Highlights for 2020
Safe Environmental
Operations Stewardship
• Fourth consecutive year of world-class lost time • Only 15 notices of violation across more than
incident rate (LTIR) performance 400 operating locations, all of which were
• Continued improvement in total injury incident minor with no fines assessed
rate performance, with safest year on record • Reduced coal in our cement kiln fuel mix from
• 99 percent of our employees worked 70 percent to 23 percent percent of total fuel usage
without a reportable safety incident • Implemented filter press systems that allow use of
• MSHA citations per inspection continue to be recycled water for as much as 70 percent of
well below industry average production needs
• Chattanooga, Tennessee quarry received • Set carbon intensity reduction targets for 2030
prestigious Sentinels of Safety Award from the for our cement and magnesia businesses that
National Mining Association we believe will continue to position us ahead of
the U.S. domestic cement industry average
• Very limited employee-to-employee transmission
of COVID-19, despite nearly continuous • Disclosed Scope 1 CO e emissions across all
2
operations as an “essential” business business lines in the 2019 Sustainability Report
issued in 2020, as well as Scope 2 CO e emissions in
2
this year’s Sustainability Report
• Beneficial use of synthetic gypsum, a by-product
of flue-gas desulphurization by coal-powered
plants, helps divert this material from
overburdened landfills
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