SAFETY PROJECT TEAM AWARD


High Hazard Freeway Project Wins AGC Project Team Award


widening project, which runs from the Los Angeles River Bridge to the San Bernardino Freeway. As a result of their efforts, AGC of California awarded this project the Safety Efforts of a Project Team Award for 2015. Te $102.6 million project involved structural concrete


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for 19 retaining walls, structural concrete improvements to 10 bridges, and installation of over 132,000 cubic yards of paving on the 710 freeway. Te project’s main focus included the rehabilitation of the pavement that had been damaged from extensive truck traffic in the area; increasing the safety along the route by upgrading the median barrier; and widening the shoulders and installing fiber optic lines to improve various traffic management technologies. All of the work was done with minimal impact to the


traffic during multiple shifts. Te project by its nature was high hazard work. Workers


faced extreme weather conditions, drunk drivers entering the work zone, inattentive drivers that threatened the work zone, and multiple thefts of company tools and materials. Te SMJV put in place various safety programs to ensure


a safe workplace, including safety recognition programs, extensive planning and engineering, in-depth job hazard analyses relating to necessary shutdowns to complete replacement of bridges and abutments, weekly tool box meetings involving all subcontractors, and more. Te key to the


Clinton Myers, left, and Paul Camour, right, representing Shimmick Construction Co./ Myers and Sons Construction JV, accept the Safety Efforts of a Project Team Award from presenter Monte Bridgewater.


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project’s strong safety record – just one OSHA recordable case in over 261,000 worker hours (as of the award submittal in the summer of 2015) – was total commitment from all personnel on


himmick Construction Co./Myers and Sons Construction JV overcame a variety of challenges on the 710 Freeway pavement rehabilitation and freeway


The 710 Freeway pavement rehabilitation and freeway widening project in Southern California.


the project. All involved embraced a prominent safety culture that was reinforced by safety training, experience, partici- pation, and great employee attitudes toward maintaining a safe project. 


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