Luminant Employees Set 23 Safety Records in Six Months
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Records Account for a Combined 17 Years without an OSHA-Recordable Injury; Combined 113 Years without a Lost-Time Incident DALLAS--(Business Wire)-- Luminant employees have kept safety a top priority in 2009, setting 23 significant new safety records in just six months. "It`s one thing to talk about safety, it`s another to live and work by these principles each and every day. The impressive number of safety milestones our employees have reached this year is evidence they`re doing just that," said Mike Blevins, Luminant chief operating officer. "By covering safety in daily pre-shift meetings and engaging our workforce through a variety of on-site safety programs, employees are taking ownership of their own safe work practices and it`s making a difference." Among the safety milestones reached in first half of 2009: * North Lake, Tradinghouse and Trinidad Power Plants each reached four years without an OSHA-recordable injury; Graham Power Plant achieved three years; and Oak Grove Power Plant reached two years * Stryker Creek Power Plant achieved 34 years without a lost-time injury; Trinidad Power Plant reached 29 years; Three Oaks Mine, Permian Basin and Lake Creek Power Plants 10 years each; and Big Brown Power Plant nine years, among others * Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Monticello and Martin Lake Mines reached two million safe work hours without a lost-time injury; Beckville Mine and Martin Lake Power Plant each achieved one million safe work hours * The plant maintenance support fleet logged more than one million miles of safe driving without a preventable accident About Luminant Luminant, a subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings Corp., is a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, construction and development operations. Luminant has more than 16,100 megawatts of existing generation in Texas, including 2,300 MW fueled by nuclear power and 5,800 MW fueled by coal. Luminant is constructing an additional 2,200 MW of coal-fueled generation capacity, which is expected to begin commercial operation in 2009 and 2010. The company is also the largest purchaser of wind-generated electricity in Texas and fifth largest in the United States. EFH is a Dallas-based energy holding company that has a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries, primarily in Texas. Visit www.luminant.com or www.energyfutureholdings.com for additional information. Luminant Ashley Monts, 214-875-8010 Ashley.Monts@luminant.com Copyright Business Wire 2009
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