National Maintenance Agreements Policy Committee, Inc. has awarded Barton Malow Company the Bronze Star for logging more than 200,000 safe work hours on the Ultium Cells 2 Battery Plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The company also earned the Certificate of Merit for logging more than 100,000 safe work hours on the Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana.
Barton Malow Company accepted the honors at the 22nd annual Zero Injury Safety Awards Gala held in October. This is the fifth-consecutive year the general contractor has earned at least one ZISA recognition.
Barton Malow is providing construction services on Ultium 2 through an Integrated Project Delivery approach for the new 2.8-million-square-foot lithium-ion electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing facility. Team members and construction partners gathered this past September to recognize the 1-million work-hour milestone, occurring just over a year since construction began. Once fully operational, the plant will create 1,300 new high-tech jobs to support the production of battery cells for GM’s Ultium Platform-based EVs, including the Cadillac Lyriq.
Established in 2000 by NMAPC, ZISA is an annual recognition program celebrating the union contractors, labor representatives and owner-clients who work together in a tripartite fashion to create injury-free jobsites. Today, ZISA is recognized nationwide as union construction and maintenance’s premier award for industrial safety.