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Delta Faucet Co. receives Governor’s Safety and Health Award; 500,000 hours without lost time

MORGANTOWN, Ky. (Feb. 10, 2012) – Kentucky Labor Cabinet Secretary Mark Brown Friday presented Delta Faucet Co. with the Governor’s Safety and Health Award. The award provides special recognition for outstanding safety and health performance, and encourages the development of programs designed to reduce and even eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses.

The award is given to employers and their employees who together have achieved the required number of hours worked without experiencing a lost-time injury or illness.

Delta Faucet employs 168 hourly and salaried workers in Morgantown, Ky. and is an example of employees and employers working together to create a safe work environment for all.

“For the past three years, Delta Faucet has focused on increasing awareness of environmental, health, safety and security issues throughout the facility and at all levels of the organization,” Brown said. “The Labor Cabinet commends the company and its employees for their proactive approach to safety.”

The Morgantown facility of the Delta Faucet Co. produces sub-assemblies for the finished faucet assembly plant in Tennessee; the diamond seal technology cartridge that is used in DST faucets; the electronic assembly for touch faucets; the monitor cartridge assembly that regulates the amount of hot water in tub showers and the facility produces low-flow showerheads.