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OSHA Injury Report: Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation - Smelter

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation - Smelter in South Jordan, UT 84009 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was operator in blister copper manufacturing.

Establishment
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation - Smelter
Parent company
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation
Street
4700 Daybreak Parkway
City
South Jordan
State
UT
ZIP
84009
On-site location
Hot Metals Slag Tapping
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
72

cleaning FC furnace slag launder

During a flash converting furnance down day the opeator was cleaning out the slad daunder with a skim-bay bar. Their hand slipped down the bar and caught their thumb between the bar and the launder

fractured thumb

impact and caught between equipment

While breaking up the skulls in the FC slag launder employee went to strike the slag with a short skim bay bar. When the skim bay bar impacted the slag it deflected and caused her thumb to be crushed between the skim bay bar and the slag launder shell.

Job description
Operator
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
331410 — Blister copper manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
363
Total hours worked
686018
EIN
133108078
Establishment ID
1130382
Employer case #
4133075674
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
12:30
Filing year
2024
Submitted
30JAN2025:20:43:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.