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SAFE OPERATIONS

Despite our growth into new markets, we continued to see safety improvements
over the prior year. One of the values we embrace that has enabled this achievement
is our Guardian Angel Creed. With Guardian Angel as the foundation of our safety
culture, safety performance, ownership and engagement of the safety process
extends beyond division lines and allows our employees to be consistently reminded
that each one of us is responsible for our own and each other’s safety. As an integral
part of this safety culture, we continually train our employees on health and safety.
This is in addition to initial training that employees receive when hired.

In 2023, Martin Marietta launched a revamped cross-functional Safety Task Force designed to work across all divisions
and business lines to ensure the Guardian Angel safety culture continues to grow and improve. Created and announced
by Chair and CEO Ward Nye, the task force focused on objectives aiming to help every member of the team work better
and safer.

“Through engaging with our colleagues, we want to validate the safety procedures we believe to be best practices and
identify areas where there is opportunity to improve,” Vice President of Safety and Health Michael Hunt said. “Ultimately,
we want to advance our industry-leading safety culture and performance so that more of our people go home safely each
day. We want to achieve ZERO incidents.”

Since it was established, the task force has worked diligently to meet a high bar of achievement. “We identified several
key safety areas – based on data and employee experience – where we can make substantial and sustainable
improvements,” he said. “We worked to develop a series of recommendations that were shared with company
leadership. We then determined how best to pursue those recommendations companywide.”

Among the task force’s recommendations was encouraging senior leaders to continue to be visibly involved in Martin
Marietta’s safety culture. In line with the task force’s recommendation, at the start of 2024 and throughout the remainder
of the year, Chair and CEO Ward Nye led a series of Safety Virtual Town Hall meetings to discuss important topics with
Company employees. The presentations, given to frontline operational leaders, celebrated Martin Marietta’s world-class
safety performance and outlined key safety protocols and initiatives to guide the Company’s future.
Each session focused on identifying and eliminating potential hazards, acting as Good Wingmen to all colleagues and
working together as ONE team to strengthen the Guardian Angel culture and ensure Martin Marietta’s people go home
safely at the end of each day.

Nye discussed the importance of the many safety campaigns at the Company, including Why I Work Safely and How to
Keep Your ZERO. “These campaigns encourage our teams to think deeply about safety. They aim to have our people
think outside of themselves and outside of their day-to-day activities to truly consider the importance of safety and how
it’s achieved,” he said. “We all have family and friends who we cherish. They’re truly what matters most. Please allow
them to serve as our collective motivation to work safely. Remember, there’s absolutely no task so urgent that we can’t
take the time to perform our work safely.”

One of the most impactful moments came when Nye discussed the Safety Task Force. “No matter how successful our
efforts may be, ZERO remains our overarching goal,” Nye reminded the viewers.

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