Michigan Group Honors Top Logging Safety Records

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During the 2025 Timbermen’s Convention held late April in Sault Ste. Marie, the Michigan Assn. of Timbermen’s (MAT) Self-Insurance Fund (MATSIF) celebrating some top safety awards during the event’s annual safety awards banquet. In all, six logging companies—BKP Logging, Grade A Logging, Luther & Sons Logging, Maeder Logging, Northland Harvesting and Whittaker Land & Timber—received 10-year safety awards. Two companies—Clarence McNamara Jr. Logging and Mannisto Forest Products—received 15-year safety awards. One company, Shamco Inc., received a 20-year safety award and Willie Outman Forest Products, LLC of Lake City took home a 45-year safety award! Habitat Management of Michigan/Great Lakes Nursery Soils of Muskegon received a MATSIF Merit Award. The banquet drew a crowd of 250 to the safety celebration. MATSIF has a 45+ year history of providing a quality workers’ compensation program to the wood products industry.

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