Phoenix, AZ -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/26/2016 -- Company award as one of the "Best of the Best" companies in Arizona for workplace safety. CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Company is Arizona's premier provider of workers compensation insurance. CRC was 1 of 100 honorees out of more than 40,000 CopperPoint customers recognized for its workplace safety efforts in 2015. James Burriss, CRC President & CEO commented, "We have won the award 5 out of the last 8 years....an incredible record for our industry and the worker comp code we operate under. If the award was based on workers comp code performance, we would have 8 of these beautiful crystal pyramids."

Best of the Best Criteria

Annual Premium: > $50,000
E-Mod Factor: < .80
Loss Ratio: < 25%
3 YR Combined Loss Ratio: < 25%
Loss Time Accidents: 0
CopperPoint Customer: 3+ continuous years
Drug & Alcohol Free Program
Tim Putnam, VP & CFO and James Burriss, President & CEO

"Our Best of the Best award recognizes the outstanding efforts of our safest customers," said Don Smith, CopperPoint Mutual President & CEO. "We often say safe companies save money, but the bottom line is solid safety policies and practices in the workplace save lives. When every worker can go home safely to their families at the end of their workday, everyone wins."

About CRC
Founded in 1959, CRC Surface Technologies is an AS9100 & NADCAP certified, ITAR registered single-source metal finishing service provider for the aerospace, defense, medical, semiconductor/electronics,space and heavy equipment industries. Located in central Phoenix, AZ our multi-shift 60,000 square foot processing facility services regional and national machine shops including OEMs such as Boeing, BAE Systems, Bombardier Aerospace, Eaton, General Electric, Honeywell, Hamilton Sundstrand, Goodrich,Parker Aerospace, Bell Helicopter, Rolls Royce, Spirit AeroSystems, Space X and Woodward.

For Media Contact:
James W. Burriss
July 20, 2106 Title: President & CEO
Direct: 602-288-0394
jburriss@chemresearchco.com
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