The American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute (ACCCI) has awarded AK Steel with an award for safety on two cokemaking plants. The Max Eward Safety Award annually recognizes the ACCCI-member coke plant having the best safety record. AK Steel’s Ashland and Middletown coke plants both earned the award because employees at each location worked the entire year of 2008 while logging a safety record of zero OSHA recordable injuries. The awards mark the 11th time in the past 12 years that AK Steel coke plants have been selected for ACCCI’s highest safety honour, and the fourth consecutive year that the Ashland coke plant received the award.