Background:
Lockheed Martin’s participation in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
began in 1994 when one of Lockheed’s sites, the Lockheed Maritime Systems in
Syracuse, New York, achieved VPP Star recognition. This site continues to be
active in VPP. As of February 2008, Lockheed had eight sites participating in
VPP, including seven Star sites and one Merit site.
Success Impact:
Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control Site in Archbald, PA Reduces Injury
and Illness Rates - Total Case Incidence Rate (TCIR) and Days Away from Work,
Restricted, or Transferred (DART)
Lockheed Martin’s Missile and Fire Control site, located in Archbald, PA,
currently employs approximately 606 full-time staff and 30 private contractors
at the site. The facility operates 24 hours a day/seven days a week covering
three eight-hour shifts. This facility performs metal fabrication for the U.S.
military comprising of shipboard metal cabinet assemblies, mortar fin
assemblies, Laser Guided Training Rounds (LGTR), and components for Laser Guided
Bombs (LGB). The Archbald Missile and Fire Control is the first site to
participate in OSHA’s VPP from this particular business division of Lockheed
Martin.
The site’s three-year average Total Case Incidence Rate (TCIR) was 2.4 which was
65 percent below the 2005 Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) national average.
The site’s three-year Days Away from Work, Restricted, or Transferred (DART)
average rate was 1.6 which was 54 percent below the 2005 BLS industry average.
The below table presents this site’s injury and illness rates’ average between
2003-2005 compared to BLS’ national average in 2005.
| |
TCIR |
DART |
| Site’s Injury and Illness
Rates (3-Year Average) |
2.4 |
1.6 |
| BLS National Industry Average
for 2005 |
6.9 |
3.5 |
| Percentage (%) Below BLS 2005
Industry Average |
65% |
54% |
Lockheed Martin VPP Maritime Systems Site in Moorestown, New Jersey
Sees Workers’ Compensations Costs Plummet
Lockheed Martin’s Maritime Systems facility, located in Moorestown, New Jersey,
has been an OSHA VPP Star site since 1999. At that time, this site’s workers’
compensation costs were over $740,000 per year.
However, after receiving VPP Star status, Maritime Systems decreased their
workers’ compensation cost the following year to $188,869 per year – close to a
75 percent reduction. This site continues to maintain similar savings. These
decreasing workers’ compensation costs show the impact that VPP has on reducing
injuries and illness while helping the company’s overall bottom line. In 2006,
the site’s workers’ compensation costs were about $94,000 annually – 646,183
less than the first year they became a VPP Star site.
The below chart, developed by Maritime Systems, presents the site’s increased
workers’ compensation savings between 1999 through 2006.
TEXT VERSION OF CHART DATA:
Chart Title: Workers Compensation Costs
Chart Type: Vertical Bar identifying the increased workers' compensation savings
between 1999 through 2006.
Chart Elements: 8 - One bar for each year
Values:
- 1999 = 740,121 (We became a VPP Star site in 1999.)
- 2000 = 188,869
- 2001 = 197,713
- 2002 = 406,609
- 2003 = 187,583
- 2004 = 849,573 (In 2004, we had two very expensive injuries, one costing
$339,000 and one costing $105,000.)
- 2005 = 283,769
- YTD 2006 = 93,938
Origin: Regions II Albany Area Office and Region
III Philadelphia Area Office
Entered VPP: 1994
Industry: Manufacturing (NAICS Code 3329)
Employer: 1
Employees: 140,000
Source and Date: Mike Levy, Region II Albany Area Office and Chrysoula
Komis, Region III Philadelphia Area Office (February 2008)
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