Buick-Doe Run wins safety award

St. Louis-based Doe Run’s Buick lead mine in Missouri recently won an award for its 1989 safety record, which showed 147,624 employee hours without lost time to injuries. Called the Sentinels of Safety, the award has been designed to promote accident prevention measures since its inception in 1925. Later this year, the Buick mine staff will receive a trophy that depicts a family waiting for the father’s safe return. A Sentinels of Safety flag will fly at the site for a year.

The Sentinels program is co- sponsored by the mine safety and health administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and by the American Mining Congress.