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Show Steel workmen achieve with safety record American steel industry, six times safer than workers in all industries, and as much as 20 times safer at work than while off the job. Not to be outdone by its big neighbor to the south, Consolidated Consoli-dated Western Steel's Pipemill can point to some big safety marks of its own. This spring, Pipemill employees employ-ees wound up two full years without a serious injury of any kind. Pipemill employees last year won first place in competition com-petition with .72 other American heavy fabricating firms for working 351,204 man-hours without a disabling injury roughly equal to one man working safely for about 170 years. For the past two years, crack U. S. Steel first aid teams have captured top honors in the annual an-nual competition for Utah industries in-dustries co-sponsored by the Utah Industrial Safety Society and Utah Chapter, American Society of Safety Engineers. Piling up a record-setting point total of 1,497 out of a possible 1,500 the team from Geneva Works won the contest in 1958, while an eight-man team from Geneva Coal Mine, near Dragerton, scored first with 1,495 tallies in 1959. The competition is held during the Utah State Fair each year. The men who make steel in Utah are receiving another kind of "salute" this week a tip of the hard hat from America's steel industry for unmatched achievement in safety. saf-ety. Earlier this month, the National Na-tional Safety Council announced announ-ced that its highest recognition for safety performance an Award of Honor will be presented pre-sented this fall to the employees employ-ees of Geneva Works for taking tak-ing top spot in safety among American steel mills of comparable com-parable size. The award came under the N.S.C.'s annual metals me-tals section safety contest. Two other Awards of Honor for completing more than five million man-hours without disabling injury and for significant signi-ficant reduction in injury frequency fre-quency and severity rates were presented to Geneva on September 16. These latest awards bring to ten the number num-ber of Awards of Honor Geneva's Gen-eva's steelmakers have earned since 1952. As a result, the more than 5,000 employees at Geneva Works are over three times safer than the average for the |