Mine Safety Award Honorees Announced

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1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Released Monday, May 6, 2013 Embargoed until Thursday, May 9, 2013 Contact: Mark Ellis Phone: ; Mine Safety Award Honorees Announced WASHINGTON, DC - The Industrial Minerals Association North America (IMA-NA) today announced the companies and mining operations that will receive its safety recognition awards. IMA-NA Chairman David Brown and IMA-NA President Mark Ellis presented the awards at the IMA-NA s Spring Meeting here. The safety recognition awards program is run in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). An impressive list of 14 companies and 33 individual mining operations were honored. The two classes of awards recognize different levels of safety performance. * The IMA-NA Safety Achievement Award recognizes the best reportable injury rate for an individual IMA-NA member company by size category for the preceding calendar year, in this case The award criteria evaluate a company s safety performance at all of its U.S. facilities and non-u.s. mining sites in North America. This year s winners include: FMC Corporation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Large Category (700,000 or more employee hours) (1,837,473 hours) KaMin LLC Macon, Georgia Medium Category (Fewer than 700,000 but more than 100,000 employee hours) (648,779 hours) * MSHA provides the IMA-NA with data on injuries and employment information for awards purposes. This data relies on self-reported injury and employment information submitted by IMA-NA members and is not independently verified by MSHA.

2 IMI Fabi, LLC Benwood, West Virginia (79,278 hours) The safety performance of these IMA members is truly inspiring, enthused IMA-NA s Mark Ellis. Large Category Honoree FMC Corporation worked 1,837,473 employee hours with 12 injuries for an injury rate of 1.31 per 200,000 employee work-hours. Medium Category Honoree KaMin LLC had zero injuries while working 648,779 employee hours, for an injury rate of 0.00 per 200,000 employee work-hours. Small Category Honoree IMI Fabi, LLC likewise had a zero reportable injury rate, while working 79,278 employee work-hours. To put that in perspective, the preliminary injury rate for all metal and nonmetal mines in 2012 was One additional Medium Category company and ten additional Small Category companies tied the winning zero reportable injury rate, but had fewer employee hours. Of these companies, Ellis said, These honorees operated all of their mines throughout 2012 with zero injuries. That truly is benchmark mine safety performance. Each company received a Safety Achievement Certificate in recognition of their outstanding safety performance. The companies include: Superior Silica Sands LLC Fort Worth, Texas Medium Category (Fewer than 700,000 but more than 100,000 employee hours) (123,922 hours) Old Hickory Clay Company Mayfield, Kentucky (77,927 hours) Manley Brothers, Inc. Troy Grove, Illinois (65,898 hours) Southern Filter Media Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (60,485 hours) Bryan Rock Products, Inc. Shakopee, Minnesota (27,955 hours) 2

3 CED Enterprises Akron, Ohio (24,738 hours) CARBO Ceramics Inc. Marshfield, Wisconsin (23,013 hours) Southern Ohio Sand Willoughby, Ohio (22,092 hours) George W. Bryant Core Sands, Inc. McConnellsville, New York (11,252 hours) Jordan Sands, LLC North Mankato, Minnesota (6,600 hours) RLF Baldwin Operations LLC Magnolia Springs, Alabama (4,959 hours) Also recognized are 33 individual IMA-NA-member U.S. mining operations for working 200,000 continuous employee hours during 2012 without a single reportable employee injury. This year s honorees include: First-Time Honorees FMC Corporation Westvaco Sweetwater County, Wyoming (424,161 hours) Imerys Marble New York Mine Pickens County, Georgia (293,477 hours) 3

4 Imerys Talc Sappington Mill Gallatin County, Montana (272,819 hours) Unimin Corporation Unimin Gore Plant Frederick County, Virginia (271,456 hours) Unimin Corporation Unimin Corp - Hephzibah Richmond County, Georgia (267,444 hours) Lhoist North America Nolanville Mine & Mill Bell County, Texas (259,719 hours) M-I SWACO Brownsville Barite Plant Cameron County, Texas (241,094 hours) U.S. Silica Company Mill Creek Plant #39 Johnston County, Oklahoma (238,566 hours) Carmeuse Lime & Stone Inc. James River Operation - Plant #2 Botecourt County, Virginia (236,465 hours) Imerys Talc Yellowstone Mine Madison County, Montana (235,651 hours) EP Minerals, LLC Colado Mine Pershing County, Nevada (233,723 hours) 4

5 Premier Silica LLC Voca Pit & Plant McCulloch County, Texas (218,711 hours) Carmeuse Lime & Stone Inc. Portage Operation Porter County, Indiana (211,051 hours) Amcol International Corp Yellowtail Mine Big Horn County, Wyoming (208,664 hours) Graymont Western US Inc. Tacoma Plant Pierce County, Washington (207,077 hours) Lhoist North America Crab Orchard Mine and Mill Cumberland County, Tennessee (202,311 hours) Repeat Honorees Halliburton BPM (2009, 2010 & 2011) Lovell Mill Bighorn County, Wyoming (735,376 hours) Imerys Talc (2007, 2010 & 2011) Three Forks Mill Gallatin County, Montana (679,038 hours) Old Hickory Clay Company (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011) Hickory Clay Mill Graves County, Kentucky (558,613 hours) Southern Filter Media (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011) Baywood Plant East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (537,819 hours) 5

6 KaMin LLC (2010 & 2011) Sandersville Plant Washington County, Georgia (513,299 hours) U.S. Silica (2003, 2004 & 2011) Kosse Plant Limestone County, Texas (497,405 hours) KaMin LLC (2010) Macon Plant Twiggs County, Georgia (459,731 hours) KaMin LLC (2010 & 2011) Wrens Plant Jefferson County, Georgia (459,010 hours) Imerys Clays (2009, 2010 & 2011) Deepstep Land and Mines Washington County, Georgia (378,647 hours) U.S. Silica Company (2010 & 2011) Rockwood Plant Wayne County, Michigan (304,705 hours) Unimin Corporation (2003) Unimin Schoolhouse Quartz Plant Avery County, North Carolina (280,700 hours) Imerys CE Minerals (2009, 2010 & 2011) Macon County Mines Macon County, Georgia (277,799 hours) Unimin Corporation (2004, 2010) Unimin Red Hill IOTA Mitchell County, North Carolina (273,500 hours) 6

7 U.S. Silica (2006 & 2011) Dubberly Plant Webster County, Louisiana (252,691 hours) U.S. Silica (2003 & 2011) Jackson Plant Madison County, Tennessee (250,076 hours) Lhoist North America (2011) Alabaster Mill Shelby County, Alabama (239,291 hours) Imerys Filtration Minerals Inc. (2011) Fernley Plant Lyon County, Nevada (238,790 hours) MSHA and IMA-NA strive to help the industry achieve its ultimate goal sending safe and healthy miners home to their families, every shift, every day, said David Brown, IMA-NA s Chairman and President and Chief Executive Officer of Wyo-Ben, Inc. (Billings, Montana). We re pleased to recognize IMA-NA member companies that have compiled excellent safety records and who serve as examples for other companies. MSHA is the federal agency responsible for promoting and protecting the safety and health of the nation s miners. MSHA carries out its mandate at all mining and mineral processing operations in the United States, regardless of size, number of employees, commodity mined, or method of extraction. To learn more, visit IMA-NA was formed in April 2002 and represents mineral producer members and associate members providing goods and services to the industrial minerals industry. Membership is comprised of companies that are leaders in the ball clay, barite, bentonite, borates, calcium carbonate, diatomite, feldspar, industrial sand, kaolin, magnesia, soda ash (trona), talc, wollastonite and other industrial minerals industries. IMA-NA is the principal trade association representing the industrial minerals industry in North America. To learn more, visit ### 7

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