Arctic Oil & Gas Directory: Carlile driver receives workplace safety award

As reported by the American Red Cross of Alaska April 24, Zeke Davis, a truck driver for Carlile Transportation received the 2012 Real Heroes Breakfast Workplace Safety Award, sponsored by ConocoPhillips Alaska.

When Zeke Davis left Valdez one morning last January, it never crossed his mind that he would help save the lives of two young women along the way.

Davis was on a route he knew well, but on this drive, he came upon an unfamiliar and frightening discovery — a terrible automobile accident.

Driver Janina Sanders had been ejected from the vehicle and sustained major injuries. Terra Phillips, 18, was not ejected but had severe whiplash and was emotionally unstable. Davis first put Phillips in his truck, called for help and grabbed blankets to cover Sanders with while she lay on the road in the minus 30 temperature. He did not move the girl, despite the frigid weather, and that decision, it was later discovered, had saved her life. Had Sanders been moved or exposed to warmer temperatures, she could have bled to death. Thanks to Davis, his calm action and wise decisions, both young women made it to medical attention in time.