Leland Olds employees achieve remarkable safety record
Leland Olds Station employees achieve remarkable safety record
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
- May 10, 2010
Stanton, N.D. - On April 7, 2010, the employees at the Leland Olds Station, Stanton, N.D., achieved a rare milestone - they reached 1 million safe work-hours worked without a DART incident. And even a month later that record continues to build. DART is an acronym for Days Away Restricted or Transferred, and it's a measure of the severity of an injury that occurs in the workplace.
Mark Thompson, Leland Olds plant manager, said this safety achievement is an enviable accomplishment. The record was reached during some of the busiest times ever at the plant, including two unit outages and the construction and installation of a $410-million dollar scrubber project. The last DART incident occurred in October 2006.
"In my eighteen years with the cooperative, this remarkable achievement has only happened once before at Leland Olds - in the early 1990s," Thompson said. "I'm proud of the employees for working safely, smartly and carefully every day." As of today, employees have recorded 1,030,000 workhours.
Thompson hopes that this record will continue for a long time, but he says "it takes a commitment by each and every employee here at the plant to make sure it does continue. I hope some time in the future that our other plants will surpass this record."
There are 154 employees at the Leland Olds Station.
About Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Basin Electric is a consumer-owned, regional cooperative headquartered in Bismarck, N.D. It generates and transmits electricity to 135 member rural electric systems in nine states: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. These member systems distribute electricity to about 2.8 million consumers.
Basin Electric's generating resources include: two coal-based power plants in North Dakota - the Antelope Valley Station, Beulah, and the Leland Olds Station, Stanton; a coal-based power plant in Wyoming - the Laramie River Station, Wheatland; three peaking stations - the Spirit Mound Station, Vermillion, S.D.; the Groton Generation Station Groton, S.D., and the Wisdom Unit 2 Station, Spencer, Iowa; nine combustion-turbine generators (natural gas) in the Gillette, Wyo., area; four wind turbines - two near Minot, N.D., and two near Chamberlain, S.D.; and 80 wind turbines near Minot, N.D. (2010). Basin Electric is also the sole purchaser of electricity from sources operated by others including: six baseload waste-heat stations owned and operated by Ormat Technologies Inc. along the Northern Border Pipeline; the output of three wind farms owned and operated by NextEra Energy Resources, Juno Beach, Fla. (These wind farms are located near Wilton and Edgeley/Kulm, N.D.; the other is near Highmore, S.D.)
Basin Electric has long-term, purchase power agreements of varying capacities from the George Neal Station Unit 4 (coal-based), Sioux City, Iowa, operated by MidAmerican Energy; the Walter Scott, Jr. Energy Center (coal-based) units 3 and 4, Council Bluffs, Iowa, operated by MidAmerican Energy; the Wisdom Station (coal based), Spencer, Iowa, operated by Corn Belt Power Cooperative; peaking stations located in Spencer, Estherville, Pocahontas, and Webster City, Iowa; the Duane Arnold Energy Center (nuclear), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, operated by NextEra Energy Resources; the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska; and three Iowa wind farms - near Superior/Lakota, operated by Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative; in Hancock County operated by NextEra Energy Resources and in Palo Alto County operated by Crosswind
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