Norfolk Southern Earns 19th Consecutive
Harriman Rail Safety Award
For 19 years in a row, NS employees have won the E.H. Harriman Memorial gold medal award for employee safety in the railroad industry. The gold medal recognizes NS as the railroad with the lowest employee personal injury ratio among the nation's major railroads.
Norfolk Southern has won the award every year since 1989 — an achievement unmatched among the industry's major freight railroads.
What Are The Harriman Awards?
The E.H. Harriman Memorial Awards are the only safety awards specifically designated to recognize railroad safety improvement. The awards are presented for outstanding performance in railroad safety and as a stimulus for the conservation of human life.
The awards are presented annually to the U.S. railroads whose employees have the lowest number of injuries for every 200,000 employee-hours worked.
It takes into account the volume of work performed, as well as the number of fatalities, injuries and occupational illnesses reported to the Federal Railroad Administration.
Gold, silver and bronze medals are presented annually to railroads in three groups of line-haul carriers and a fourth group of switching and terminal companies for attaining the best employee safety records during the preceding year. The gold medal is the highest award.
The awards were established in 1913 by Mary W. Harriman in memory of her husband, Edward H. Harriman, a pioneer in American railroading.
