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Show SAFETY COUNCIL PRESENTS AWARD TO KENNECOn The Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation, Tuesday, was awarded the National Na-tional Safety Council's Award of Merit for its outstanding safety record during 1956. The Division qualified for the award by having an accident frequency fre-quency rate of only 3.87 accidents per million man-hours compared to the surface mining industry's national average of 1 1.23 accidents acci-dents per million man-hours worked. Officials gave credit for the achievement to the cooperation coopera-tion of employees, supervisors and operating management in the company's safety program. The Award of Merit is the second sec-ond highest award the National Safety Council presents to industrial in-dustrial organizations that have recorded an outstanding safety achievement. The award also takes into consideration con-sideration the Division's outstanding out-standing safety record over the three-year period from 1953 thru 1955. In comparing the accident rate for the Division over the three-year period with that of the industry at large, Utah Copper Cop-per Division showed a 48 improvement im-provement in accident rate frequency fre-quency in 1956. To qualify for an Award of Merit in the surface mining industry, an organization must have a 28 improvement in frequency accident rates. Otto A. Wiesley, chairman of the Utah State Industrial Commission Com-mission presented the official plaque to L. F. Pett, general manager man-ager of Utah Copper Division at a luncheon Tuesday. In complimenting the Division on its safety record, Mr. Wiesley also noted that the Division has worked twelve million man-hours since August 1956 without a fatal accident. This, he said, is a considerably con-siderably better record than the average shown in the surface mining industry for 195G. National Na-tional statistics show there were 2.7 fatal accidents during the year for every ten million man-hours man-hours worked, he said. He also pointed out tnat tne Utah Copper Division was one of only 18 mining operations in the U. S. which qualified for the award for its safety record during dur-ing 1956. "These facts," he said, "are conclusive evidence that the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation has an excellent ex-cellent safety program and there appears to be unusually fine cooperation co-operation on the part of employees, em-ployees, supervisors and management man-agement in regards to safety." Mr. iWiesley especially complimented compli-mented those directly responsible respon-sible for the planning and administration admin-istration of the safety program. In accepting the official plaque on behalf of the Division, Mr. Pett said, "The safety results attained at-tained by our Utah Division have been made through the cooperation coopera-tion of 6,600 employees. We are proud of them for making our Division a safer-better place to work." A similar award had previously previous-ly been presented representatives of the Division's open-pit copper mine at Bingham Canyon and the Magna Mill for their outstanding out-standing safety records during 1956. Both operations worked over a million man-hours without a disabling injury. o |
