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Union Pacific Railroad March 14 announced 29 winners of its seventh annual Chemical Transportation Safety Pinnacle Award, which recognizes the Class I's chemical and petrochemical customers' safety achievements.
The railroad judged numerous chemical-shipper applications based on safe-loading techniques, shipment securement and the number of non-accidental releases.
Based on UP's carload-handling statistics, awards are given in four categories: less than 500; 500 to 999; 1,000 to 3,000; and more than 3,000 cars.
Less-than-500-car category winners are Albemarle Corp., Chemtall Foote, Diversified CPC International, Eaglebrook Inc., First Chemical Corp., Kemiron North America Corp., Kinetic Resources, Koch Chemical, Mountain Gas Resources, Odfjell Terminals Inc., Old Bridge Chemicals, Ondeo Nalco, Potash Corp., Wynnewood Refining Co. and Westlake Styrene Corp.
For 500-to-999 cars, category winners are Ethyl Corp., Minnesota Corn Processors, Olin Corp. and Reagent Chemical.
In the 1,000-to-3,000-cars category, winners are Formosa Plastics USA, Millennium Petrochemicals, Nexen Chemicals, Nova Chemicals Inc., PPG Industries Inc. and Sunoco Inc. (the only seven-time winner of UP's Pinnacle Award).
And winners in the more-than-3,000-cars category are BASF Corp., Georgia Gulf, Phelps Dodge Mining Co. and Pioneer America's Inc.
Since 1994, UP's non-accident hazardous-material releases declined 28 percent, partly because the railroad's chemical-transportation safety field personnel inspected more cars, as well as the Pinnacle Award's safety criteria, according to a prepared statement.