Joel Slaughter//May 24, 2011//
John Kirwan, a machinist with Union Pacific Railroad in Hinkle recently was named the 2010 winner of the Harold F. Hammond Award. Under his leadership, Union Pacific’s Hinkle facility achieved more than 1,400 injury-free workdays in 2010 and a Federal Railroad Administration reportable injury rate of zero since January 2007 – the equivalent of more than 1.7 million working employee hours. The award was established in 1986 and honors a railroad employee who has demonstrated outstanding safety achievement during the preceding year.