Weyerhaeuser Company today announced that its Beaverton,
Ore., recycling plant has received recognition for an outstanding safety
record.
The company's highest safety honor -- the ``Safety
Excellence Award'' -- was accorded the Beaverton facility for reaching a
five-year mark with no lost-time accidents.
``The Beaverton plant has worked one million hours without a
lost-time accident and is the first of Weyerhaeuser's recycling facilities to
reach this significant milestone,'' said Mark Starnes, vice
president-Recycling. ``And, for the second consecutive year, Beaverton has been
named a SHARP recipient by the State of Oregon's Occupational Safety and Health
Division.''
The Beaverton facility, which includes a 65,000 square-foot warehouse, employs about 80 people and operates 24 hours a day, five days a week. The operation collects and sorts more than 90,000 tons of paper per year, including business papers, corrugated shipping containers, newsprint and office paper for manufacture of recycled paper products.
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