GWI wins third consecutive Harriman award

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. has won the E.H. Harriman Gold Award for the best safety record among railroads working less than four million man-hours in 2010. This is the second-consecutive E.H. Harriman Gold Award for the BPRR, a Class 2 freight railroad with 368 miles of track in western New York and Pennsylvania and the third-consecutive year that a GWI railroad has won the award. For 2010, 53 of 62 GWI railroads worldwide achieved zero reportable injuries and GWI's combined injury-frequency rate was 0.5 per 200,000 employee hours, compared with a shortline railroad peer-group average of 3.9 per 200,000 employee hours. From 2006 to 2010, GWI's derailments, grade crossing incidents and personal injuries have declined 55 percent, 49 percent and 74 percent. "Our number one priority is for every Genesee & Wyoming employee to return home safely each day and these awards are wonderful recognition of our employees' personal commitments to working safely," said GWI President and CEO Jack Hellmann. "We remain focused on our ultimate goal of becoming an injury-free company."