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Battalion/Page 3
June 9, 1982
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>-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION'.General meeting. The
£ aker will be Dr. Bill Adams and summer officers will be
;ced in 504 Rudder at 7:30 p.m.
1SCOPAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION:Group meets for
doly Eucharist and Supper at 5:30 p.m. at the Canterbury
-louse, 902 Jersey St.
, 0 J1ADUATE STUDEN1’ COUNCIL:Meeting to be held at 4
ourytheiit p.m. in the MSC Council Room.
K tor "tiid >C OUTDOOR RECREATION'.Three canoeing films fea-
"tured in meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
Thursday
kMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: A meeting will be held at
nmereijiii 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
ERRA CLUBrDr. Carls will discuss controversies over off
road vehicles on Cape Cod National Seashore at 7:30 p.m. in the
Brazos Valley Museum, Brazos Center.
XAS A&M ICE HOCKEY:A meeting will be held at 8 p.m.
on the sixth floor of the campus library to discuss summer
activities and fund raising.
Friday
ISCOPAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION :Group meets for
Holy Eucharist and breakfast at 6:30 a.m. at the Canterbury
House, 902 Jersey St.
Aggie businessman
wins state awards
Yorker says offshore
Industry needs safety
■a United Press International
WEW ORLEANS — Workers
Jlering the offshore oil indus
try lace the same risks as soldiers
rming into battle, a 20-year
i|teran diver told a congression-
ubcommittee.
“It’s like open warfare out
jere,” Ed White told the House
subcommittee on manpower
and housing Monday. “The
iisualty rates are high.”
11 White, a San Francisco diver
bo works offshore for oil com
ics, was among several wit-
:ses who testified on the safety
the industry.
Barry White, director of safe-
standards for the federal
cupation Safety and Health
ministration, called the
offshore oil industry extremely
iazardous. However, he said,
inflicting statistics on casualties
lade it difficult to make exact
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tries.
High turnover for offshore
workers probably accounts for
many of the industry’s safety
problems, White said. Workers
with less than six months of ex
perience have an “incredibly
greater likelihood of an acci
dent,” he said.
In a written statement, White
said the number of serious in
juries resulting in lost work per
100 fulltime workers was 6.6
offshore in 1980. That com
pares with 3.9 for other Amer
ican industries.
Conversely, oil industry offi
cials said they were proud of
their safety records considering
the dangerous offshore en
vironment and saw no need for
additional government regula
tions. They also praised new
training programs.
by Colette Hutchings
Battalion Staff
Ben Hardeman is another ex
ample of an Aggie who’s made
good.
Hardeman, 36, and presi
dent of the Bryan-based OMC
Industries, which makes bronze
and aluminum awards and cast
ings used in the oil industry, was
recently named Small Business
men of the Year for Texas by the
U.S. Small Business Administra
tion. He also won the regional
title in the National Small Busi
ness Person of the Year Award
competion.
A Class of ’68 graduate in
industrial distribution, Harde
man’s company started in 1967
when the industrial education
club wanted to produce cast
metal nameplates for a money
raising product.
Hardeman secured orders
for 30 nameplates and was later
asked by the executive vice-
president of the Texas Aggie
Club, John Hopkins, to make
750 plaques for Outstanding
Aggie Club members. With
Hopkins’ help and a $ 1,000 loan
for the project, the business was
born.
Since his father taught indust
rial education at Texas A&M for
several years and Hardeman
made aluminum castings while
in junior high school, Harde
man said he had an interest in
metal works even before college.
At first OrnaMetal Castings
was a sole proprietorship which
produced metal name plates for
doors and desktops, awards,
metal belt buckles and paper
weights.
But soon the company ex
panded and began making cast
ings for pumps and valves for oil
firms. The name of the com
pany then changed in 1981 to
OMC Industries, Inc.
Ten years after the start of
the business Hardeman’s sales
were up to $ 1 million a year and
by 1981, OMC Industries had
generated $3.4 million in sales
with $2.2 million coming from
the castings sales to oil firms.
Hardeman said that typically,
in starting a business, mechanic
al skills are needed, and that
part of his success came from
knowing how to produce his
product personally.
An important factor in run
ning a successful company,
Hardeman said, is knowing
one’s abilities.
“A common person who
starts a company with skills and
entrepeneur spirit often will not
be able to make a switch in man
aging other people,” he said.
“Some of the downfalls of
companies that start up, grow
some and then fail, are because
the people who are the driving
force on a small scale can’t switch
to a large-scale operation.”
Hardeman said he’s not sure
he’ll stick with the management
part of the company as it con
tinues to expand.
“I’m not sure I have the abil
ity to manage that big a com
pany,” he said. “At that level it
takes a different type of person
to manage a $25 million com
pany with 1000 employees than
it does a 5-employee company.”
Hardeman says OMC cur
rently employs 75 workers.
“You have to decide which is
more important, working for
self or for someone else,” he
said. “Working for someone else
provides security but working
for yourself provides satisfac
tion.”
Hardeman said he will con
tinue to grow with the company
and intends to manage it.
“Hopefully, I’ll recognize it if
I don’t nave the skills to manage
a larger company and will be
willing to admit it,” he said.
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