Safety

A Word About Safety
Here at Beverly Materials L.L.C., providing a safe work environment is one of our highest goals. Many hours Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Annually are dedicated to a program of continuous improvement, training and monitoring to protect and insure the safety of our people, our customers and visitors, our equipment alike.

Over the decades the mining industry has been one of the most regulated and monitored industries in the nation. This is because it is by nature, inherently dangerous to have people in the same proximity as large moving machinery, high voltage electricity, and sometimes explosives. Yet, that said, over the last century this industry can be very proud of its safety record of improvement and performance.    
 
The U.S. Department of Labor performs the duty of monitoring and enforcement through the Offices of the Mine, Safety and Health Administration or M.S.H.A. for short. This governmental body is further divided into two main areas of interest “Coal” and the second is “Metal / Non Metal”  The Construction Materials Mining and processing that Beverly Materials does falls in this latter category of Metal / Non Metal (MNM).

M.S.H.A. maintains detailed records on the industry and our operations and the facts point out some interesting truths about our activities….

In the mining industry today our workers face more dangers in coming to work and going home at night on our nation’s roadways than they do while at work!Food for Thought!According to one governmental accidental death statistics data base: