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Show Telephone Co. Has Outstanding Safety Record Telephone employees of the Utah Flant Department were recently awarded the 1952 Annual Safety Trophy for having the best state safety record of all eight states which comprise the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. There are almost 900 male employees em-ployees in the department. This large group of men were successful success-ful in performing their daily work so safely that not one of them was injured seriously enough during the full year to lose a day of work. These employees operated 275 company motor vehicles a total distance of almost two and one-half one-half million miles last year. Also, they maintained telephone service on a 24-hour basis, during stormy weather and often over rugged mountainous terrain. Of paramount interest is the safety record of the group of employees em-ployees who work in the Provo district: Included in this district are all the exchanges in the southern south-ern part of the state extending from Lehi to the south state boundary boun-dary Jine. For a period of 198 months (162 years) there has not been a lost time acicdent involving the employees in these 35 exchanges. ex-changes. This is the best record of any district organization in the entire Mountain States Company. Also, the men ofhe Utah Construction Con-struction Department, who work throughout the state as a part of the Plant Department team, have not had a lest time accident for over three years. This, too, is the finest record' in the Mountain States Company for employees oi this group. |