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OSHA Injury Report: Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation in El Paso, TX 79915 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production Operations Helper in copper smelting and refining, primary.

Establishment
Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation
Parent company
Freeport McMoran
Street
850 Hawkins Blvd
City
El Paso
State
TX
ZIP
79915
On-site location
Tankhouse Starter Sheet Cooling Station
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Employee was sitting down at a cooling zone when a particle blew into his eye

Overhead crane bumped on the stop in doing so particles came off crane rail. A fan was blowing in front of employee when a particle blew in his eye.

Corneal abrasion to right eye

Airborne particle

Foreign body and corneal abrasion right eye

Job description
Production Operations Helper
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
331410 — Copper smelting and refining, primary
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
260
Total hours worked
661623
EIN
131816885
Establishment ID
633304
Employer case #
14
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00:00.000
Time of incident
6:00:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:16:18:00

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