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safety milestone: 14 years without an OSHA-recordable injury. Given the statistics surrounding logging and forestry injuries, and the vast amount of company-owned timberland managed by RoyOMartin foresters—approximately 550,000 acres—this accomplishment is especially noteworthy. The land and timber division’s achievement follows RoyOMartin’s perseverance of its “IBiZ” (I Believe in Zero) safety program, which focuses on personal responsibility. President and COO E. Scott Poole added, “Our land and timber team are the example of what we can all achieve with a sustaining, dedicated focus on safety. Here’s to the next 14 years injury free!”
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Power Equip. Takes On Komatsu In Arkansas Power Equipment Co., based in Knoxville, Tenn., will be appointed the authorized Komatsu distributor in Arkansas effective mid-September, 2021. The territory will be served by existing authorized Komatsu branches in Little Rock, Ark. and Springdale, Ark. Power Equipment is a member of the Bramco family of companies, one of the oldest and largest privately held equipment dealers in North America, and the Komatsu dealer for Tennessee, northern Mississippi and southwest Virginia. Power Equipment is solely focused on the distribution, support and
service of heavy equipment. Power Equipment will operate out of the existing H&E Equipment Services facilities in Little Rock and Springdale, retaining all current distribution business employees at these branches.
CLA’s Smith Leaves For US Endowment Position The Carolina Loggers Assn. (CLA) recently announced that Ewell Smith, Executive Director, is leaving to assume a full-time position working with the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. According to a statement from the CLA board chairman Chip
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Capps, “We will lean on the NC Forestry Association, our brothers in the South Carolina and Virginia associations, and the ALC to continue the progress we all have made politically the last years.” The CLA has current staff in place, Jonzi Guill, Communications Director and Joanne Reese, Finance & Accounting, to continue the projects in place for 2021 and 2022. “With the speed we are seeing changes in our industry now this continuity and forward movement is critical,” Capps added, noting that Smith in his new opposition will continue to support the logging industry though programs such as the recently unveiled timberhauling.com.
