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Show UTAH COPPER RECEIVES SAFETY AWARD MONDAY Highlight of the Utah Copper company Foreman's safety committee com-mittee meeting held Monday ev ening was the presentation of the Joseph Holmes safety award by E. H. Denny, Salt Lake City, representing re-presenting the U S. bureau id' mines to Marvin L. Ray, general track foreman of Utah Copper ; at Bingham. The Joseph A. Holmes Safetj association, which has made such awards for many years, is made up of 29 leading national organizations organi-zations representing the mining, : metallurgical, and allied industries. indus-tries. It commemorates the efforts ef-forts of I)r Joseph Austin Holm es, first director of the bureau of mines, to reduce accidents and ill health in these industries, and its chief activity is the annual a-warding a-warding of medals and certificates certifi-cates for heroic conduct and good safety records. It operates on a I small endowment fund. Dr. R. R. i Savers, director of the bureau of ! mines, is president of the association. asso-ciation. One of these awards is of par J ticular interest to all of us here, namely the Certificate of Honor j for the Track department of the Utah Copper company. It recognizes recog-nizes the remarkable safety accomplishments ac-complishments of all persons having ha-ving to do with this department, management, supervisors and individual in-dividual workers. This certficate records that the Track department depart-ment operated from November 7, 1940 to November 15, 1941 with 802 employees and 1,813,288 man-hours of exposure, transporting trans-porting 71,762,111 tons of ore and waste, without a single lost-time accident A dutch lunch was served to members and guests, several members of bureau of mines. Jack Coombs, Chick Clay, of Salt Lake City and D. C. Houston of the Salt Lake office of Utah Copper, |