MT. VERNON, IOWA - The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) - a non-profit international organization that serves to expand and improve the use of Tilt-Up as the preferred construction method - has announced the winners of the industry's second annual safety awards.

This year's awards were renamed the Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards to honor a past president, board member and strong supporter of the Tilt-Up industry. Engelman helped introduce this award competition and the TCA wanted to honor his contributions and dedication to improving the industry.

Presented at TCA's Convention, held in College Park, Md. on Oct. 5, the Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards program was developed to enhance the TCA's overall Achievement Awards program, providing a new component emphasizing safety.

TCA divided the awards program into three specific categories:

• Best Tilt-Up Safety Achievement Award: recognizes the firm with the lowest incident rate in 2006. Since there were several firms achieving a zero Incident rate, the award was given to the company with the highest number of annual work hours.
• Zero Lost time Accident Achievement Award: provided to all submitting companies who achieved an incident rate of zero for 2006.
• Certificate of Recognition: awarded to all companies whose incident rate fell below the national average for structure contractors, a number that was made available by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The winners of the 2007 TCA Safety Awards are:

Best Safety Achievement Award:

• Precision Concrete Construction, Inc.