LAGRANGE, GA - Wheelabrator Group reached a major milestone during the first quarter of 2014 with 1,000,000 hours without a lost-time incident. Over 200 Wheelabrator employees and guest marked the event during a safety luncheon at the company’s LaGrange facility on March 13. Featured speakers included Robert E. Joyce, President & CEO of Norican Group (parent company of Wheelabrator and DISA); Poul Erik Arre, Director of HS&E, Norican Group from Denmark; Pierre Tanguay, VP Supply Chain, Wheelabrator Group; Judith Carr, Member of Chairman’s Board Georgia State Board Workers Compensation; Jim Thornton, Mayor, City of LaGrange; and Kathleen Parsloe, CPCU, ARM Senior VP Marsh USA Inc.

A leading surface preparation company, Wheelabrator manufactures a full range of wheel-type shot blast machines, mass finishing equipment and automated air-blast solutions.