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The Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association recognized its 2025 Safety Award winners during the group's recent annual meeting in Stowe, Vt.
Pleasant River Lumber won six awards and Robbins Lumber three, while Biewer Lumber, Pukall Lumber, Hammond Lumber, and Irving Forest Products took home two apiece.
A total of 20 mills located in the Northeast and Great Lakes provided data from their OSHA Summary of Work-Related Injuries report for calendar 2024 to compete in the safety award program.
More than 1.25 million man-hours of planer operation work, and 1.41 million man-hours in the sawmill operation were reported.
Nine mills employing 528 people with combined operations totaling 1,110,445 man-hours reported a no loss-time accident-free year in 2024.
Winners included:
Sawmill Operations
Division 1 (under 50,000 man-hours)
1. Johnson Lumber
2. Pukall Lumber
Division 2 (50,000-75,000)
1. DiPrizio Pine Sales
2. Robbins Lumber, Searsmont, Me.
Division 3 (75,000-100,000)
1. Pleasant River, Enfield, Me.
2. Pleasant River, Dover-Foxcroft, Me.
Division 4 (over 100,000)
1. Biewer Sawmill Wisconsin
2. Irving Forest Products - Ashland
Planer Operations
Division 1
1. Pleasant River, Dover-Foxcroft
2. Hammond Lumber
Division 2
1. Pleasant River, Enfield
2. Robbins Lumber, East Baldwin, Me.
Division 3
1. Moose River Lumber
2. PotlatchDeltic, Bemidji, Me.
Division 4
1. Robbins Lumber, Searsmont
2. Hancock Lumber, Bethel, Me.
Combined Operations
Division 1
1. Hammond Lumber
Division 2
1. Pukall Lumber
2. Britton Lumber
Division 3
1. Pleasant River, Dover-Foxcroft
2. Pleasant River, Enfield
Division 4
1. Biewer Sawmill Wisconsin
2. Irving Forest Products - Ashland
