Pacific Harbor Line Earns Harriman Safety Award
Most improved three-year record among smaller U.S. railroads
WILMINGTON, Calif., May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Harbor Line (www.anacostia.com/phl/phl.html) said today that it has received the prestigious Harriman Certificate of Commendation for the most improved employee safety record among more than 500 smaller U.S. railroads. The award was presented today by Association of American Railroads President Ed Hamberger at a special luncheon in Washington, D.C. honoring this year's award winners.
To earn the award, PHL achieved a continuous gain in employee safety from 2008 through 2010 and showed the greatest improvement in the last two years among regional and short-line railroads working between 250,000 and four million man-hours annually.
PHL President Mike Stolzman said, "This is a tremendous achievement and recognition of the hard work by our employees to improve our safety record and make Pacific Harbor Line a safer place to work."
This is the first Harriman award earned by an Anacostia & Pacific company (www.anacostia.com), a leading regional railroad development firm. Other Anacostia rail affiliates include: Chicago South Shore & South Bend, Gulf Coast Switching Company, Louisville & Indiana, New York & Atlantic, and Northern Lines Railway.
The Harriman Awards were founded in 1913 by the late Mary W. Harriman in memory of her husband, railroad pioneer Edward H. Harriman, to recognize railroads that achieved the lowest casualty rates per 200,000 man-hours. The awards are administered by the E.H. Harriman Memorial Awards Institute with support from the Mary W. Harriman Foundation.
Pacific Harbor Line began operations in 1998 providing railroad switching services to the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and also dispatching all BNSF Railway and Union Pacific trains within the ports. PHL maintains 75 miles of track owned by the two ports and serves nine on-dock intermodal terminals, plus numerous carload customers.
SOURCE Pacific Harbor Line
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