Issue 100 July 21, 2016

July 2016

Story by Ted Sweetman, Safety Manager

Tyler Pipe selects a NEW facility Safety slogan during June Safety Awareness Month!

There were many safety activities from different departments during June’s Safety Awareness month. The Safety department with the help of HR devised a plan for a Safety slogan contest with the winning slogan to be printed on T-shirts and then distributed to all team members. There were many good slogans submitted from both

salary and from hourly team members. The judges had 39 slogans to choose from and it was no easy task. The winning slogan was from Don Teer, one of our Master Electricians with almost 17 years of employment here at Tyler Pipe. The team of judges selected “SAFETY IS OUR CAST IRON RULE” which truly reflects both the culture at our facility and the importance we place on safety.

Putting all this together took team work and coordination from a diverse group of people from several departments. I would like to provide a special thank you to the judges: Jennie Shephard,

Greg Simmons, Dan Nelson, Jimmy Allen, Jason Sieben, and Rod Burrus, as well as Annette Scholer from HR for coordinating the design and ordering the t-shirts; the safety department is currently passing out the shirts to our team members – and everyone Loves them! Just look; the pictures will say it all!

Also during the June Safety Awareness month a special toolbox talk was issued to the plant explaining the new Globally Harmonized Labeling system (GHS). All container labels as well as safety data sheets will be updated to be in compliance with these new regulations. Posters with the new pictograms and hazard classifications were posted in team member’s breakrooms as reminders, which explain the meaning of the new pictograms. (see picture of poster below)

I saved the best for last: Tyler Pipe has broken our last record for injuries without a LOST WORK DAY (LWD)! Our previous record was 292 days and our NEW record is 356 days! Way to go team!

James Fuller

Ampelio Galaviz &

Juan Sandoval

Lester Kimble

Patrick Tracy

Eric Cummings Lenord Lott

Jennie Shephard & James Stephenson

Jennie Shephard & Aaron Baeza

Don Teer, Composer of the

New Tyler Pipe Safety Slogan,

receives his shirt.

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Don Teer

16 years of service

James Jackson 50 years of service

Hershel Flournoy 39 years of service

Welcome back to your

favorite game show...

We had a few guesses as to whom

these fine folks are to the right but

we only had fourTeam Members that

guessed all four correctly. That was

Jerry Reeves, Charles Minnick,

Desmond Haskett & Richard Bell.

All four names were put into a hat

and Annette, our

friendly HR Assistant,

drew the winning name,

Desmond Haskett.

Desmond is the winner

of a new Tyler Pipe

Logo Polo.

Charlene Starling

50 years of Service

Our North Eastern Distribution Facility is finally open for business! Welcome to the McWane family

South Plainfield, New Jersey.

I had a chance to speak to Jerry Kosloski, Distribution

Manager of Tyler Pipe East, about his sprawling

66,000 sq. ft. facility that sits on 6 acres of property.

Jerry and his crew have been very busy unloading

trucks coming from Tyler, Texas to build up their

inventory. The Lawyers closed on the property on the

16th and Jerry and his crew started receiving material on

the 23rd of June. Prior to receiving their first load Jerry

had to designate areas for the product and clear off an area

for all of that inventory. The warehouse is stock piling

fittings, gaskets, seals and short lengths of pipe as all of their inventory will be stored

inside. As soon as the storm water permit comes through Jerry will start building up his

stock of quality Tyler Pipe to serve the bustling New York market. When I asked Jerry

what his operating scope was he said that he would be covering the North East all the

way down to Virginia and possibly as far over as Ohio. What I did not know is that

South Plainfield is just fifteen minutes from New York City where sales are always on the increase as commercial

buildings populate the skyline. Jerry stated, “Our competitive edge is that we are going to keep all of our product

inside and out of the elements so we can offer our customers the best product available on the market today.” The

Tyler Pipe East Distribution Facility is off to a good start and within months will have the product and location to

provide top quality Pipe, Fittings and Gaskets to our valued customers at a moments notice.

By Rod Burrus

Michael “Alex” Grausso, Joe

Henry & Jerry Kosloski,

Distribution Manager

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Saturday, September 10th!

10 am ~ 3 pm

Each team member can bring up to 3 guests

Food, fun, prizes and games

**Sign up list will be available in August**

Tuesday

July 26th

Watermelon Day

Wednesday

August 17th

Sno-Cone

Day

Tuesday

August 2nd

Corporate

Spelling Bee

Saturday

September

10th

Family Picnic at

the Water park

Thursday

October 27th

Halloween Candy

Grab Bags

Saturday

November

12th

Annual Service

Awards

Banquet

Saturday

Dec. 3rd

Christmas

Party

Wed & Thurs

Dec. 7 & 8

Turkey/Ham/

Fruit Basket

Giveaway

On Friday, July 15th Tyler Pipe said goodbye to over 81 years of combined service to two of our

longtime shipping team members; Tommy Stone 37 years of service and James Warren with 44

years of service. A huge BBQ luncheon was held in their honor. Even though

James could not attend the celebration, it did not stop us from wishing him the

best of luck in his retirement.

After 37 years, Tommy Stone decided to hang up his hard hat and put on his

ball cap. He now has plans to enjoy life with his wife Gail and the new grand-

baby. Tommy’s career at Tyler Pipe was spent both as an hourly team member

as well as a salaried team member. It was in 2004 that he was promoted as a

salaried team member working in shipping as a Receiving Coordinator and he

now ends his career as a Shipping supervisor. With his vast amount of

knowledge on shipping procedures for Tyler Pipe, Tommy was very instru-

mental these last few weeks in assisting setting up our New Jersey Distribution

site. Tommy said, I’ve been here for 37 years and the company waits till I’m about to leave to decide to

send me across the country.

I asked Tommy what he will do now that he doesn’t have to report here every day, and he said he has a part time job lined up

working no more than 3 days a week a few hours a day; because that’s all he wants, just enough to keep him busy. Tommy

and his wife will be missed here. You see both of them were very active in participating in our community events. Gail said

she loved being an active participant in all the community events we sponsored such as Relay for life, East

Texas Food Bank just to name a few. Of course, we told her not to let Tommy’s retirement stop her because

she will have an open invitation to participate in all of our future events.

Tommy & Gail, we wish you both lots of luck and wishing you the best in your retirement.

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Eric Cummings ~ 1

Rita Shuttlesworth ~ 3

Refugio Palacio ~ 3

Melvin Mosley ~ 3

Bahati Nails ~ 4

Aaron Baeza ~ 5

Anthony Blount ~ 5

Evelia Lara ~ 5

Deric Folks ~ 9

David Jones ~ 10

Jo Ann Loghry ~ 10

Bobby Croley ~ 12

Bob Wolter ~ 15

Mitchel Bowles ~ 15

Ampelio Galaviz ~ 16

Tony Baeza ~ 17

Heath Huffstetter ~ 19

Larry Davis ~ 20

Chester Logan ~ 21

Ryan Miner ~ 21

Jerry Reeves ~ 22

James Foster ~ 22

Patrick Leonard ~ 23

Jennifer Wickliffe ~ 24

Arturo Cardenas ~ 24

Nick Wilcox ~ 25

James Jackson ~ 25

Karin Hinshaw ~ 26

Luis Gauna ~ 27

Cathy Parker ~ 27

Morris Johnson ~ 31

See how many Tyler Pipe words you can find

AKERS GRIND WADE

CASING LOTO WAREHOUSE

CASTIRON MILLROOM WHEEL

COKE MOLD

COREROOM PIPE

CUPOLA SAFETY

ENVIRONMENTAL SCRAP

FABRICATE SHIPPING

FITTINGS STANDS

FORTYTWENTY TEAM MEMBERS

We are looking for team members interested in volunteering at the East Texas Food Bank on Saturday, July 30th, from 9am - 12pm. Those interested can sign up in Human Resources.

Don’t forget, partici-pating also means your name will be entered into the drawing for a GRAND PRIZE at the end of the Year.

TYLER PIPE DAY OF CARING