Little Rock, Ark. – The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has recognized Entergy’s White Bluff Plant in Redfield, Ark., as a Voluntary Protection Program Star worksite.

The OSHA VPP Star recognition is one of the highest forms of recognition given by OSHA for safe work performance and practices. The average VPP worksite has a lost workday incidence rate 50 percent below the average for its industry. White Bluff’s last lost time incidence was in November 2003.

OSHA began the Voluntary Protection Program in 1982 to promote safety in the workplace and reduce the human and financial toll accidents can take. VPP recognizes businesses that go above and beyond the minimum requirements for protecting the health and safety of employees and surrounding communities. Achieving VPP Star status is an employee driven accomplishment. White Bluff employees, many of whom are represented by Local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 750, were instrumental in achieving this recognition.

White Bluff is a two-unit, coal-fired plant that produces 1,659 megawatts – enough energy to power approximately 1.5 million average Arkansas homes. White Bluff has been in operation since 1980 and employs 145 people. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. owns 57 percent of the plant. The plant’s co-owners are Arkansas Electric Cooperative with 35 percent, City of Jonesboro with 5 percent, City of Conway with 2 percent, and City of West Memphis with 1 percent.

Entergy Arkansas provides electricity to 680,000 customers in 63 counties. Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has approximately 14,700 employees.

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