Tulsa Marine Maintenance Unit receives Army Safety Award

Photo By Brannen Parrish | Colonel Timothy Hudson, Tulsa District Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, presents the Fiscal Year 2021 Army Industrial Operations Safety Award to Shane Roe and the Marine Maintenance Unit employees, October 5, 2022. Roe oversees a team of 21 maintenance workers who engage in high-hazard operations daily. Over the past three years the team logged nearly 55,000 combined hours of work without lost time due to injuries, property damage accidents or workers’ compensation claims.  

TULSA, OK, UNITED STATES

10.05.2022

Story by Brannen Parrish 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District

Colonel Timothy Hudson, Tulsa District Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, presented an Army level safety award to the Marine Maintenance Unit at the Marine Maintenance Terminal in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Oct. 5.

The 21 employees of the MMU, were recognized for outstanding safety record while engaged in high hazard industrial operations and received the Fiscal Year 2021 Army Industrial Operations Safety Award.

“What the Marine Maintenance Unit has accomplished with its safety record is remarkable, particularly when you consider the potential for injury while working in enclosed spaces, on and around the water, from heights and with overhead hazards,” Hudson said.

According to Tulsa District Chief of Safety Mike Kerr, more than 200 Army installations submitted nominations for the Army Industrial Operations Safety Award and very few nominations are approved.

MMU employees worked a combined 54,656 hours without lost time due to injuries, recordable property damage accidents, or workers’ compensation claims. Workers averaged more than 50 hours per week while recording zero reportable injuries.

Some of the MMU’s daily high-hazard industrial activities include dredging, towboat operations, rigging, welding, fabrication, crane operations, and river and harbor maintenance.

The MMU has the task of repairing and refurbishing USACE infrastructure and equipment on the five locks and dams, and 150 nautical miles of river channel, that comprises the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System in Oklahoma.

“When I first started here seven years ago, leadership said, ‘Safety is our number one. That’s what we strive for. We want everybody going home with fingers, toes. We don’t want any lost time accidents.’ I think we’ve done a really good job since I started but here lately, we’ve been really stepping it up,” said Jacob Cooper, MMU River and Harbor Maintenance.

• Date Taken: 10.05.2022
• Date Posted: 10.06.2022 13:58
• Story ID: 430869
• Location: TULSA, OK, US