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Nov. 27, 2007                                                             PHONE: 919.782.4600

SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTORS / SOUTHERN CRANE

CELEBRATE ACCIDENT-FREE YEAR IN WILMINGTON

RALEIGH – Southern Industrial Constructors and its wholly owned subsidiary, Southern Crane, recently achieved another safety milestone when their Wilmington branch office celebrated one year without any recordable injury or illness. 

The company’s 166 Wilmington-area employees worked 346,077 hours between

November 2006 and November 2007 without a single recordable incident as defined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  

“At Southern Industrial, our policy says it all: Safety is our number-one priority,” said Phil Hooper, vice president of safety and risk management.  

“That’s why we go above and beyond what is required by law to implement our own high safety standards and guidelines,” Hooper added. “We do it not just for the security of our workers, but the security of the general public, as well. This milestone is a perfect example of how our employees demonstrate their strong commitment to following our safety policy day in, day out.”   

For more than 45 years, Southern Industrial Constructors / Southern Crane has served as an industry and community leader, taking pride in providing services with safety, integrity, quality workmanship and responsive customer care.  

Founded in 1962, Southern Industrial provides a wide range of services throughout the Southeast, including turnkey industrial construction, industrial electrical construction, turnkey plant installations and relocations, turnkey rigging and plant maintenance service and specialized metal fabrication.  

Southern Crane provides state-of-the-art crane and rigging services, and has been a leader in a national safety movement to encourage the certification of all crane operators. All of Southern Crane’s operators are CCO certified.  

Because of their exemplary safety records, both Southern Industrial and Southern Crane are among the few companies in the state recognized as STAR contractors by the N.C. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Division. For more, visit www.southernindustrial.com.

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CONTACT: Phillip Hooper, 919.782.4600