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COMPANY OVERVIEW
Central Division Member Receives Major Safety
Award
Tyler Horton (left) receives the Minnesota Mine Safety
Excellence Award
Tyler Horton, a leadperson at Minnesota Portable #5, has won the 2024 Minnesota Mine Safety Excellence in Safety Award.
During a February ceremony, Horton was presented with the award, which annually honors someone who goes above
and beyond to make working in mines safer in the state.
“I was honored to receive this award, which truthfully represents everyone at Portable #5,” Horton said. “It shows that
the efforts we are making here are worth being recognized and that we are doing something right.”
Horton credits the team’s dedication to the site’s mop-up program as the main component of receiving this honor.
Once a month, the crew picks a different project on the site that can improve safety in or around the pit. Horton added
that the crew’s dedication to the program has been shown through friendly competition during mop-ups, which increases
the effectiveness of the individual projects and “puts the site’s safety at another level.”
“The voting committee for the award really liked our mop-up program and our specific tasks in 2023. My crew is pretty
competitive about the jobs, trying to do their best, which made us really dig into things we needed to improve on our spread
or in the pit,” he said. “Recognizing this makes us feel like the industry cares about our efforts; it is a great feeling.”
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