KBDJ wins national award for “outstanding safety record”

The KBDJ quarry outside of Buda, Texas has been awarded a Sentinels of Safety award from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for achieving 23,421 employee-hours worked without a lost-workday injury. This is the second time KBDJ has won a Sentinels of Safety award from MSHA, which routinely conducts random safety inspections at the quarry.

“The safety of our employees, contractors, and neighbors is of utmost importance to KBDJ,” said Jill Shackelford, president of KBDJ. “It’s important that the community know we run an extremely safe operation. We’re very appreciative of MSHA’s recognition.”

This is the second Sentinels of Safety Award that KBDJ has won.

The annual Sentinels of Safety award program recognizes “achievement of outstanding safety records to stimulate greater interest in safety and to encourage development of more effective accident prevention programs among the nation’s mineral extractive industries.” The program is cosponsored by the National Mining Association (NMA).

KBDJ’s 23,421 employee-hours without a lost-workday injury equates to more than four years without experiencing even a minor injury. KBDJ’s plant engineer, Lenny Bobrowski, credits weekly safety meetings held every Friday and frank discussions about accidents that have occurred at other facilities around the country.

“The whole crew operates with a keen sense of awareness about safety,” said Bobrowski. “We all realize that more than anything we want to get home to our families at the end of the day. I’m really proud of the team — they’ve earned this award.”

KBDJ posts MSHA inspection reports on its website and has received numerous perfect scores on its inspections. In 2007, one inspector wrote, “This inspection was an excellent one. The company was in compliance at the plant and with all records.”

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About Us

KBDJ, LP is an Austin, Texas-based aggregates company that provides raw materials for the construction of roads, bridges, houses and schools. We are currently mining limestone at a small quarry off F.M. 967 in Hays County to provide road base materials for State Highway 130, the toll road between Georgetown and Seguin. KBDJ is invested in the communities we serve, both financially and socially. For us, being a good neighbor means providing safe and dependable jobs to local residents while saving the public money through low-cost construction materials. It means preserving large swaths of land for wildlife habitat protection and improving air quality by switching to equipment that emits fewer pollutants. It means offering our site as an educational resource for teachers, scientists, and environmentalists seeking to learn more about our natural world. And ultimately, it means reusing the land in ways that will enhance and benefit the community once all mining activities have ceased. At KBDJ, we believe that industry, education and the environment are not mutually-exclusive endeavors. Rather, our success as a company allows us to improve the world we live and work in. We’re proving it every day.