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OSHA Injury Report: Kennecott Refinery

Other illness · Days away from work

On , an other illness at Kennecott Refinery in South Jordan, UT 84009 resulted in days away from work. Employee was operator in copper smelting and refining, primary.

Establishment
Kennecott Refinery
Parent company
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation
Street
4700 Daybreak Parkway
City
South Jordan
State
UT
ZIP
84009
On-site location
Refinery Tank House, B-Bay North
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Other illness (code 6)
Days away from work
162

While stepping off cell where a cell in the tank house the employee stepped down wrong and twisted knee.

Worker felt knee pain that did not improve with conventional treatment. An MRI was ordered with an orthopedic referral for surgical repair of fissure in the meniscus

Right knee meniscus fissure

NA

Right knee meniscus fissure while stepping down from a refining cell

Job description
Operator
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
331410 — Copper smelting and refining, primary
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
165
Total hours worked
370765
EIN
133108078
Establishment ID
1142470
Employer case #
2
Date of incident
Shift started
4:00
Time of incident
8:30
Filing year
2024
Submitted
11FEB2025:22:22:00

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.