VTCA and VA Energy Presents Individual Safety Awards at Carmeuse’s Strasburg Plant

The Individual Safety Awards is a VTCA and Virginia Energy – Mineral Mining program that recognizes miners for achieving years of service milestones without a lost time accident. The 2025 awards are recognizing miners for working safely without a lost time injury for 15, 20, 25, 30, 35+, 40+ and 45+ years. These miners have worked a cumulative total of almost 3,400 years without a lost time injury!

• Clarence Harmon  -  37 Years
• Daniel Chavez  -  46 Years 
• Adrian Campuzano  -  25 Years
• Reginaldo Gonzalez  - 39 Years 
• Raul Ramirez  -  25 Years
• Thomas Shillingburg  - 25 Years 
• Donald Dulyea  - 25 Years
• Bradley Orndorff  -  20 Years 
• Harry Fake  -  20 Years
• Robert Shanholtzer  -  20 Years 
• Darrell Copeland  - 25 Years 

Congratulations and job [safely] done to these miners. Let’s hope their coworkers recognize these marvelous achievements, and we can recognize them in the future.