UP workers set 150-year safety record
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefUnion Pacific announced Thursday that its employees achieved the best first half of the year safety performance in the company’s nearly 150-year history. Union Pacific’s employee reportable injury rate was 1.01, a 23% improvement vs. 2010’s record 1.31 reportable injury rate.
Union Pacific’s 0.95 employee reportable injury rate for the second quarter of 2011 was also the best quarterly safety performance ever and represented a 33.5% improvement over the 1.41 reportable injury rate from the second quarter of 2010.
A company’s employee injury rate is calculated using the number of injuries per 200,000 worker hours, which is equivalent to the number of hours worked by 100 full-time employees in a year.
