VTCA and VA Energy Present Individual Safety Awards to Carmeuse Miners
Date postedNovember 12, 2025
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 134 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!
The most recent presentations were to miners with Carmeuse’s Strasburg Plant. Those honored with this impressive achievement are:
- Rondal Armel - 36 Years
- Timothy Barrett - 20 Years
- Joseph Donivan - 35 Years
- Scott Faircloth - 20 Years
- Russell Barrett - 30 Years
- David Cross - 20 Years
- John Moreland - 30 Years
- Michael Parsons - 20 Years
- Joseph Moreland - 30 Years
- Franklin Johnson - 15 Years
- Scott Pangle - 25 Years
- Robert Hoppe - 15 Years
- Herbert Polhemus - 20 Years
- Thomas Tumblin - 15 Years
- William Richmond - 20 Years
- Joey Heironimus - 15 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.
