The owners and employees of J.B. Myers Enterprises Inc. of Blairsville, Pa., went from being dropped by their auto and worker’s compensation insurance company as a bad risk to being nearly unsurpassed in safety and accident prevention over the course of several years. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry recognized this extraordinary transformation by giving the company the Governor’s Award for Safety Excellence in 2010.
How this longtime family company orchestrated a turnaround in safety in the face of an insurance crisis offers a lesson in small business preservation involving a topic that seldom makes headlines. As one of the
