SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION Fort Worth District
USACE Supports the Fort Cavazos Safety Day Event On a hot and steamy central Texas morning the first of two waves of hundreds of Soldiers gathered around the entrance to Phantom Warrior Stadium to kick off the inaugural Safety Day event, May 19, 2023, at Fort Cavazos, Texas.
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he Fort Cavazos garrison safety office planned and organized the event and informed the Fort Worth District’s Central Texas Area Safety Office
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(CTAO) during the early stages of putting the event together. “Since this event involved the entire installation, I wanted to seize the opportunity to be part of this worthwhile event,” said Dan Juracek, the CTAO safety officer. “We have
p Belton Lake Lead Ranger Jewel Hale describes
the function and operation of a dam to booth visitors during the Fort Cavazos Safety Day, May 19, 2023. USACE PHOTO BY RANDY CEPHUS
a great relationship with the garrison safety office and attended the bi-weekly progress reviews leading up to the event.” Overall, there were more than 50 safety-related booths highlighting areas such as automobile, fire, home, and electrical safety. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) supported the safety event with four booths. Juracek manned a construction safety booth while a cadre of park rangers manned a water, dam, and boating safety booth. The construction safety booth provided general safety information on a range of construction safety considerations such as the wearing of proper safety
