Timberline Drilling Earns Diamond Achievement Recognition at the Minnesota Safety Council Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards
(St. Paul, MN) – Timberline Drilling, Inc. was recognized for excellence in workplace safety and health during the 2024 Minnesota Safety and Health Conference on April 30 & May 1. Timberline Drilling is one of 244 employers to be honored through the awards program, coordinated by the Minnesota Safety Council, but the only one in their category to earn the distinguished Diamond Achievement, indicating an achieved incident rate better than the 97th percentile of both state and national average!
Demonstration of Fall Safety System at Workplace Safety Awards 
Audience at the Workplace Safety Awards 
Reception Area Workplace Safety Awards 
On stage at the Workplace Safety Awards “Keeping the people we work and live with safe is a full-time job,” said Paul Aasen, CEO of the Minnesota Safety Council. “Congratulations to Timberline Drilling for investing the time and energy to make work and life safer inside their organization and beyond.”
What made Timberline stand out at the 97th percentile?
On behalf of Timberline Drilling, Julian Collins states, “With an unwavering commitment to employee safety and environmental stewardship, Timberline Drilling proudly operates a fleet of approximately 85 drill rigs at both operational and MSHA regulated mines along with greenfield exploration/emerging critical mineral sites. Our regional headquarters are in beautiful Virginia, Minnesota and we are complimented by our western hub in Elko, Nevada. We are extremely grateful and proud of our workforce and our clients, who have given us the opportunity to safely perform complex exploration programs in all corners of the United States and the world, seeking an extremely wide variety of critical minerals. Recently, thanks to a partnership with the University of Minnesota, we were able to contribute to a major scientific breakthrough by being the first company to ever drill beneath the glacier ice and into bedrock in Antarctica!”
Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards
Since 1934, the annual Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards program has honored Minnesota employers with exceptional safety performance. Applicants are judged on several years of injury data as it compares with their industry’s national and state statistics, and on their progress in implementing a comprehensive safety program.
Winners are recognized at five levels:
- Diamond Achievement
Achieved an incidence rate better than the 97th percentile of both the state and national average. - Platinum Achievement
Achieved an incidence rate better than the 90th percentile of both the state and national average. - Gold Achievement
Achieved an incidence rate better than the 75th percentile of both the state and national average. - Silver Achievement
Achieved an incidence rate better than the 50th percentile of both the state and national average. - Bronze Achievement
Achieved an incidence rate better than the 50th percentile of the state or national average.
Minnesota Safety Council Award
Timberline Drilling, Inc. received a Diamond Achievement Award, in recognition of their excellence in occupational injury prevention throughout 2023. The Minnesota Safety Council, founded in 1928, congratulates Timberline Drilling on this major achievement and accomplishment!
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Contact: Julian Collins, Timberline Drilling, Inc.
info@timberline-drilling.com
208-665-7211