Manhattan Mechanical becomes first merit shop to receive TRMA Platinum Award

(From left) Manhattan Mechanical’s Nate Hassett, Rick Coleman, Glen Moody, Mike Uremovich, Joe Harkness, Tim Boreman, and Tim Cvitanovich.

Manhattan Mechanical Services, Manhattan, Ill., has been named as the first merit shop contractor to receive the Three Rivers Manufacturers’ Association (TRMA) Platinum Award.

The association recognizes and awards industrial contractor companies that exhibit high-level safety practices at TRMA manufacturing plants. To qualify for the Platinum Award, a contractor must have held a three-year average OSHA-recordable rate of 0.6 or less and a three-year lost workday rate of 0.2 or less in 2022.

In addition, the contractor must have held an OSHA-recordable rate of 0 in 2022 for work completed at TRMA facilities, with a minimum of 250,000 total labor hours worked in the past three years. Manhattan Mechanical Services’ total recordable incident rate is 0.00, with more than 2.5 million labor hours.

The contractor also received the Gold Award, which acknowledges companies that decreased their OSHA-recordable incident rate by at least 25% in 2022, and the Meritorious Award for high-risk work.