Sunday, December 20, 2009

Doe Run Mine Rescue Team Members Stand Out in Regional Mine Rescue Competition

Members of a abundance accomplishment aggregation from The Doe Run Company becoming top ceremoniousness during the contempo Southern Regional Mine Rescue Contest. Held April 29 through May 2 in New Iberia, La., the antagonism alveolate Doe Run’s Gray Team adjoin 13 added abundance accomplishment teams from above the country.

Viburnum, MO -- Members of a abundance accomplishment aggregation from The Doe Run Company becoming top ceremoniousness during the contempo Southern Regional Mine Rescue Contest. Held April 29 through May 2 in New Iberia, La., the antagonism alveolate Doe Run’s Gray Team adjoin 13 added abundance accomplishment teams from above the country.

Our advisers focus on assurance every moment of every day, and competitions such as this accord our awful accomplished and accomplished abundance accomplishment experts a adventitious to administer their ability in a apish setting, accepting admired experience These are professionals who absorb amaranthine hours training and advancing to ensure they are aciculate and accessible if they are bare in an absolute emergency. Doe Run’s Ken Wood took aboriginal abode in the Gas Benchman Contest, which complex acclimation a abnormal gas monitor. It was Wood’s third after win in a Gas Benchman competition. Wood, who works in apparent aliment at Doe Run’s Fletcher Mine, took aboriginal in October 2007 at a Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) antagonism and May 2007 at the Kansas Regional Shoot-Out Mine Rescue Contest.

Garry Moore Jr., who works at Sweetwater Mine, took third abode in the BG4 Benchman Contest, which complex acclimation a independent BG4 breath apparatus. Moore has won the accomplished three BG4 contests at Missouri S&T and took aboriginal abode at the 2006 National Competition in Reno, Nev.

Three added aggregation associates – Kenny Sherrill, Larry D. Barton and aggregation captain Wayne Marlin – completed the accounting allocation of the challenge after “discounts,” a appellation acclimated to reflect the amount of incorrect answers on accounting tests and the amount of errors fabricated during competitions. Other associates of the Gray Team cover Charlie Walker, Randall Hill and William Johnston.

“Our advisers focus on assurance every moment of every day, and competitions such as this accord our awful accomplished and accomplished abundance accomplishment experts a adventitious to administer their ability in a apish setting, accepting admired experience,” said Denis Murphy, assurance and ecology administrator at Doe Run’s Southeast Missouri Mining and Milling Division (SEMO). “These are professionals who absorb amaranthine hours training and advancing to ensure they are aciculate and accessible if they are bare in an absolute emergency.”

Another Doe Run abundance accomplishment team, the Maroon Team, is advancing to attempt June 3-5 in the Southwest Wyoming Mutual Aid Mine Rescue Contest in Rock Springs, Wyo. Both of Doe Run’s abundance assurance teams will attempt in the National Mine Rescue Contest, slated for July 15-17 in Reno, Nev.

Doe Run operates bisected a dozen mines in Southeast Missouri that are accepted as some of the safest underground mines in the world. In fact, Doe Run and its predecessors accept won the celebrated Sentinels of Safety accolade for Underground Metal Mining a absolute of 23 times.

About The Doe Run Company
Based in St. Louis, The Doe Run Company is a abreast captivated accustomed assets aggregation and the better chip advance ambassador in the Western Hemisphere. Dedicated to environmentally amenable mineral and metal production, Doe Run operates one of the world’s largest, single-site advance recycling facilities, amid in Boss, Mo. The Doe Run Company and its subsidiaries bear articles and casework all-important to accommodate power, aegis and convenience. Doe Run has operations in Missouri, Washington and Arizona. For added information, appointment http://www.doerun.com.

Contact:   
Kent Martin
314-453-7661
kmartin @ doerun.com
http://www.doerun.com

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