How a La. manufacturer cut workplace injuries by nearly 80 percent
A manufacturer of storage tanks and pressure vessels for the petrochemical, paper, and energy industries sharply reduced its recordable injury rate after reaching out to OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program to help it identify and reduce workplace hazards.
James Machine Works, LLC (JMW), which has been family owned for three generations, has grown from three to 160 employees since it was founded in 1927. Services offered by the company include design, procurement, fabrication, transportation, and erection/installation and repair of the tanks and vessels it makes. It has a 120,000 sq. ft. fabrication plant in Monroe, Louisiana, in-house quality control department and safety department, in-house engineering and design, mobile cranes and equipment, and 10 field crews.