MOX Services achieved another monumental milestone as the MOX project surpassed 18 million consecutive work hours without a lost workday due to injury and illness during the construction of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility in Aiken, South Carolina. 

The MOX project has a comprehensive safety management system that includes management leadership, employee involvement, worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control as well as safety and health training. According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a typical construction site in the U. S. experiences one lost workday case for every 125,000 hours worked. In the span of 18 million hours worked, the typical site would have 126 lost workday cases.

Additionally, in the most recent annual data, the MOX project had an Occupational Safety and Health Administration recordable injury rate of only 0.66 per 200,000 work hours, far below the industry average as measured by the BLS. Recordable injuries are injuries that require reporting to OSHA, such an injury requiring stitches. 

Safety on the work site has always been a priority with the MOX Project. In 2011, the MOX project launched a new safety incentive program to increase safety awareness and encourage safety performance. The MOX BUX reward program recognizes and rewards individual and team achievements in safety performance. The tokens awarded can be collected and redeemed for a variety of apparel and merchandise items. 

The project has also maintained the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's top safety designation, Voluntary Protection Program Star status, for the past year. The VPP program recognizes excellence in worksite safety and health management.