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May 14, 2013

Vancouver contractor has 3,250 injury-free days

  • Greenberry Fabrication also has gone 4 million work hours without a lost-time accident.
    • By BENNETT HALL
    Corvallis Gazette-Times

    LEWISBURG, Ore. — It's 10 minutes till 7 on a Tuesday morning, and the employees of Greenberry Fabrication are getting ready for work. But before they fire up their welding torches or start cutting sheet metal, they have to do their warm-up exercises.

    With no prompting required, four dozen beefy dudes in orange vests and safety glasses launch into a five-minute stretching routine that would not look out of place in a ballet studio. They hold each pose for about 30 seconds before moving on to the next, systematically working the kinks out of shoulders, legs and backs.


     
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