Show plant department of phone company gets safety award the utah plant department of the mountain states telephone and telegraph company has been a warded the annual safety trophy for having the lowest accident rating in the intermountain region from canada to mexico during the year 1947 the award was presented to the employees in the tooele thoele and mag na garfield area tuesday april 27 1948 through gh L F tuesday T thompson h 0 m di dist s t ct et pla plant t superintendent superintend nt and R 11 H jones U utah ta h P plant ia n t E employment m e n it supervisor at a meeting held at the tooele thoele exchange the award will be displayed at other utah plants later the intermountain area compel ing in the contest serves over one fourth of the entire united states in a territory where the hazards to telephone operation are perhaps more severe than in any other maj or section of the country there are telephone em ern plo 5 of whom are in the plant department competing in this activity there are also 1200 motor vehicles in use th through rought the company their safe operation playing an important role in the pro gram |