2000 RMA Safety & Health Improvement Improvement(*) Award Winners.

                     General Products Group

           Company                             Plant

Acadia Elastomers                              Paragould, AR
Advanced Elastomer Systems, L.P.               Pensacola, FL
BRC Rubber Group                                Bluffton, IN
                                                Ligonier, IN
Bridgestone/Firestone (Firestone             Noblesville, IN
  Industrial Products)
Chardon Rubber                                    Nashua, NH
Chicago-Allis Manufacturing                      Chicago, IL
Chicago Rawhide                              Springfield, SD
Federal-Mogul                                   Van Wert, OH
Freudenberg-NOK, General                         Bristol, NH
  Partnership                                  Henderson, NV
                                              Manchester, NH
                                    Scottsburg, IN (Plant 2)
Gates Rubber                               Moncks Corner, SC
                                                 Red Bay, AL
Goodyear Tire & Rubber                        Marysville, OH
                                            Mt. Pleasant, IA
HBD Industries                             Bellefontaine, OH
IMCO                                          Huntington, IN
M.A. Hanna Rubber Compounding               Jonesborough, TN
  (PolyOne)                                       Burton, OH
Mark IV Industries                             Lexington, TN
                                             Springfield, MO
Molded Dimensions                        Port Washington, WI
Ottawa Rubber                                    Bradner, OH
Pawling                                          Pawling, NY
Rubber Rolls                                Meadow Lands, PA
T&M Rubber                                        Goshen, IN
Titan Industries                                  Spring, TX
Trostel, Ltd. (Whitewater Molding             Whitewater, WI
  Division)

                         Tire Group

Cooper Tire & Rubber                              Athens, GA
  (Cooper Tire) (Oliver Rubber)
Goodyear Tire & Rubber                           Gadsden, AL
Michelin North America               Lexington, SC (Plant 7)
                                             Spartanburg, SC
                                              Tuscaloosa, AL

(*) The Rubber Manufacturers Association's Improvement
Award is given to plants whose incidence rates for lost
workday cases are at least 20% better than their rates in
the previous year.