Fontaine Modification Springfield Facility Reaches 1,000-Day Safety Milestone

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Employees at Fontaine Modification Vocational Services' modification center in Springfield, Ohio, were treated by the company to a lunchtime celebration on Aug. 27 for working their 1,000^th consecutive day without a lost-time incident. The streak, which started when the Springfield facility reopened in 2012, is the third safety milestone within Fontaine's network of modification centers in the past year.

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"Workplace safety is a company-wide initiative at Fontaine," says Todd Sheets, Springfield operations manager. "The management team holds regular safety update calls, and all employees attend a daily safety meeting. Any time there is a close call on the facility floor, we document it and discuss how to prevent occurrences in the future. That way, everyone learns from each other how to best prevent an incident."

Fontaine's Springfield modification center primarily provides dual-drive steering modifications for refuse and street sweeper trucks built at Navistar's Springfield assembly plant. The modification center features four drive-through bays and space to service up to 15 vehicles simultaneously. Sheets has overseen production at Springfield since 2013 and has been with Fontaine for more than 20 years.

The other Fontaine Modification facilities that recently celebrated safety streak milestones are Charlotte, North Carolina, and Williamstown, West Virginia. Employees at the Charlotte and Williamstown modification centers were recognized for reaching 2,000 consecutive safe days.

For more information about Fontaine Modification Vocational Services, call 800.FONTAINE (800.366.8246) or visit www.fontainemodification.com.

About Fontaine Modification Vocational Services                

Fontaine Modification Vocational Services is a business unit of Fontaine Modification that provides specialized truck modifications for customers in a variety of industries, including refuse/recycling collection, auto transport, street sweeping and emergency services. It offers chassis and cab modifications, steering conversions, alternative fuel system installations, and paint services.

Fontaine Modification Vocational Services is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has modification centers across the U.S., including locations in Dublin, Virginia; Garland, Texas; Springfield, Ohio; and Williamstown, West Virginia. The company uses established ship-thru agreements with all major truck manufacturers to streamline the final delivery process to the end-user.

Fontaine Modification is a Marmon Highway Technologies (MHT) company. MHT companies support the transportation industry worldwide with a wide range of high-quality products and services. MHT companies are members of The Marmon Group, an international association of business units that operate independently within diverse business sectors. The Marmon Group is a Berkshire Hathaway Company.

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